We call for the end of bigotry as we know it. The end of racism as we know it. The end of child abuse in the family as we know it. The end of sexism as we know it. The end of homophobia as we know it. We stand for freedom as we have yet to know it. And we will not be denied.
Interpretation
The quote advocates for the elimination of various forms of discrimination and the pursuit of true freedom.
Urvashi Vaid's quote emphasizes the urgent need to abolish deep-rooted societal issues such as racism, sexism, homophobia, and child abuse. It calls for a transformative change in how these injustices are perceived and addressed, suggesting that true freedom is yet to be achieved, and it encourages a collective effort to confront and dismantle prejudice and inequality.
In practice
During a social justice rally to inspire activism.
The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not a fad or a fringe or a sickness. It is not about sin or salvation. The gay rights movement is an integral part of the American promise of freedom.
By aspiring to join the mainstream rather than figuring out the ways we need to change it, we risk loosing our gay and lesbian souls in order to gain the world.
I always liked to chase the girls. Parkinson's stops all that. Now I might have a chance to go to heaven.
Your greatest fears are created by your imagination. Don't give in to them.
To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and again and often forever.
The true meaning of courage is to be afraid, and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, to step out anyway—even when that step makes sense to nobody but you. I know that’s not easy. But making a bold move is the only way to truly advance toward the grandest vision the universe has for you.
The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.
When I became finance minister, they called me Okonjo-Wahala - or 'Trouble Woman.' It means 'I give you hell.' But I don't care what names they call me. I'm a fighter; I'm very focused on what I'm doing, and relentless in what I want to achieve, almost to a fault. If you get in my way, you get kicked.
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