Comments on: Stop the Silence http://firecub.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/stop-the-silence/ A place of discovery. Sat, 30 May 2009 17:02:59 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Jay http://firecub.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/stop-the-silence/#comment-36 Jay Fri, 22 May 2009 15:00:03 +0000 http://firecub.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-36 Niemöller's words have been a huge influence on the person I hope I am today. I think that now, we have reached a point in time where there is no going back, we've crossed the line and pulled those against us past a threshold - their arguments can no longer hold weight as we have become more visible. We have to keep pulling though and never forget to protect not only the members of the LGBT community, but ALL people in the quest for equality. Thanks for posting this! Niemöller’s words have been a huge influence on the person I hope I am today. I think that now, we have reached a point in time where there is no going back, we’ve crossed the line and pulled those against us past a threshold – their arguments can no longer hold weight as we have become more visible. We have to keep pulling though and never forget to protect not only the members of the LGBT community, but ALL people in the quest for equality. Thanks for posting this!

]]> By: Paul from Faces InEquality http://firecub.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/stop-the-silence/#comment-35 Paul from Faces InEquality Sun, 26 Apr 2009 01:15:42 +0000 http://firecub.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-35 The Niemöller poem is an eloquent reminder of what we are up against - mass intolerance. And the deadener of "someone else will fight this fight" is as much a challenge as silent. Thank you for speaking out. Thank you for being out. It is those two actions - if taken as a collective - which will make the scariness of being gay a distance memory. Paul FacesInEquality.org The Niemöller poem is an eloquent reminder of what we are up against – mass intolerance. And the deadener of “someone else will fight this fight” is as much a challenge as silent.

Thank you for speaking out. Thank you for being out. It is those two actions – if taken as a collective – which will make the scariness of being gay a distance memory.

Paul
FacesInEquality.org

]]> By: David http://firecub.wordpress.com/2009/03/06/stop-the-silence/#comment-34 David Sat, 07 Mar 2009 07:33:16 +0000 http://firecub.wordpress.com/?p=29#comment-34 Standing by silently is what got is in the situation that we're in now with Prop 8 in CA and all the other states that have banned same-sex marriage. Rosa Parks may have silently sat at the front of the bus, but she did so in defiance of the status quo. Of course, Martin Luther King, Jr. was far from silent. I didn't always agree with the actions of ACT UP, but their "Silence Equals Death" has always remained with me. They had the right idea in standing up, being vocal, and making others hear. "Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention and sacrifice". - Mahatma Gandhi Standing by silently is what got is in the situation that we’re in now with Prop 8 in CA and all the other states that have banned same-sex marriage.

Rosa Parks may have silently sat at the front of the bus, but she did so in defiance of the status quo. Of course, Martin Luther King, Jr. was far from silent.

I didn’t always agree with the actions of ACT UP, but their “Silence Equals Death” has always remained with me. They had the right idea in standing up, being vocal, and making others hear.

“Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention and sacrifice”. – Mahatma Gandhi

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