Jeffrey Marks > Jeffrey's Quotes

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.”
― Frederick Douglass

“One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.”
― Horace Mann

“Too often have we believed the old lie that says we’re bad, we’re perverted, we’re abominations. But those who spread the lie don’t know. They don’t know how we love, how we hurt, how we live.”
― William J. Mann, Where the Boys Are: A Novel

“It occurred to me shortly after that that it was an absolute necessity for me to declare homosexuality, because if I didn't I was a part of the prejudice. I was aiding and abetting the prejudice that was a part of the effort to destroy me.”
― Bayard Rustin