#identity

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #identity




If a person is homosexual by nature - that is, if one's sexuality is as intrinsic a part of one's identity as gender or skin color - then society can no more deny a gay person access to the secular rights and religious sacraments because of his homosexuality than it can reinstate Jim Crow.


Jon Meacham


#because #color #crow #deny #gay

Attacks on a politician's identity - questioning Romney's religion, say, or Obama's birthplace - tend to come when an opponent is desperate and can't sell himself.


Jon Meacham


#birthplace #come #desperate #himself #identity

If you tell me I look like someone you know, I might get panicked and think you’re on to me. I thought nobody saw me abduct that guy and steal his identity.


Jarod Kintz


#humor #identity #funny

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?


Chuck Palahniuk


#anyone #anything #archetypal #breakfast #freedom

When you break up, your whole identity is shattered. It's like death.


Dennis Quaid


#break up #death #identity #like #shattered

Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity.


John Shelton Reed


#ethnic #ethnic groups #group #groups #identity

Maybe we've been brainwashed by 130 years of Yankee history, but Southern identity now has more to do with food, accents, manners, music than the Confederate past. It's something that's open to both races, a variety of ethnic groups and people who move here.


John Shelton Reed


#been #both #brainwashed #confederate #ethnic

At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build many I's. But in one of them is there a congruence of the elector and the elected. Only one--which you will never find until you have excluded all those superficial and fleeting possibilities of being and doing with which you toy, out of curiosity or wonder or greed, and which hinder you from casting anchor in the experience of the mystery of life, and the consciousness of the talent entrusted to you which is your *I*.


Dag Hammarskjöld


#integrity #experience

2010 is not just a choice between Republicans and Democrats. 2010 is not just a choice between liberals and conservatives. 2010 is a referendum on the very identity of our nation.


Marco Rubio


#choice #conservatives #democrats #identity #just

A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexual identity or expression. It's often the effeminate boys and the masculine girls, the ones who violate gender norms and expectations, who get bullied.


Dan Savage


#bullied #effeminate #expectations #expression #gender