Cleve Jones Quotes

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.

I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases.

I believe we are entering into a period of political chaos. Out of that chaos is the potential for great evil, but there is also the possibility of great good.

This is a terrible time to be young, I think. It's really hard.

If I had to say what my one greatest achievement is, it's that I lasted, and I'm still happy. I hope that comes through.

People who say that violence doesn't accomplish anything have not read history. I don't celebrate that reality, but there you have it.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

Film really is a collaborative art.

I don't blame younger generations for their lack of awareness. Americans in general are not interested in history.

Hello! The world is a mess!

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

I was bullied pretty badly especially in middle school. High school was not as bad as middle school, but I was not a macho kid at all. And the kids saw me as different from a very, very early age.

I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.

If you're gonna build units for the rich, you're gonna build units for the poor.

I saw great hope in the Sanders campaign - a flawed candidate, not perfect, but pretty damn close. Millions of young people were inspired by him.

I recently heard young people talking about collective bargaining agreements - I hadn't heard young people use that phrase in forever!

Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.

The sense of urgency has almost completely vanished.

Most people do not have access to medication.

What people haven't quite grasped yet is that the rich are transforming cities all across the world.

The whole function of cities has been transformed.

People's lives can be transformed by the movement.

I don't have any hobbies! I don't golf, I can't imagine what I would do if I retired other than get fat.

The penalties for homosexual conduct were - would vary from state to state, but they were - it was a felony in most states punishable with prison terms of varying lengths.

Everybody will always find some way of diminishing your work, but it's all a lie!

The joy with which we denigrate each others' efforts, I hate that.

The subset of our population that has not benefited from the advancement of medication is black and brown people.

We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.

When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

The reality is that the "gayborhoods" are going away. It's because of many factors, including the internet and increased acceptance, but mostly it's the cost of housing.

When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.