Liberal Democrats for Lesbian and Gay Action (DELGA) - Promotes awareness of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people and issues within the Liberal Democrat party, and promotes the party and its policies within those communities.
Equality Network - Scotland's national LGBT campaigns group. EN works through a campaign network of groups and individuals to facilitate and catalyse equality campaigns.
Stonewall - London-based lobbying group working for lesbian and gay equality.
OutRage! - Instead of campaigning for new laws to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation only, OutRage! is working for an Equal Rights Act that protects all citizens (including lesbians and gay men) against all forms of discrimination, harassment, and incitement to hatred.
Amnesty International UK GLBT Network - A network for members who share a particular interest in human rights violations based on sexual orientation.
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again.
-- Bart Simpson, young character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the
top.
-- Ed Abbey He who awaits much can expect little.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass.
-- Jane Bryant Quinn Organisations If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
-- H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Life's Little Treasure Book, on wisdom Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the
gentleman.
-- Herbert Spencer "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) Organisations
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it
does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it
ha "I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs." (Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol's Exposures, 1980) Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does
not change his mind.
-- Leonardo da Vinci, Notebooks "I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower."
"Oh yeah, well I'm so insane, I voted for Eisenhower TWICE!"
-- Ken Kesey from "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Organisations The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-- ee cummings Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone.
-- Anthony Burgess "The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all." (Harry S. Truman) Organisations
"I've never let my school interfere with my education." (Mark Twain) If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a 'fix' of
something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than
cocaine.
"Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger." (Franklin P. Jones) The philosophy exam was a piece of cake -- which was a bit of a surprise, actually, because I
was expecting some questions on a sheet of paper.
-- Smith & Jones There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to
be a coincidence.
-- Jeremy S. Anderson Organisations Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
-- W. C. Fields "In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Organisations
And since the stench of death will always attract flies and vermin, the arrival of Geraldo was
perhaps inevitable.
-- Garry Trudeau The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too.
When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing
extraordinary In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
- Steven Wright Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
-- Thomas Carlyle Organisations I was a pilot flying an airplane and it just so happened that where I was flying made what I was
doing spying.
-- Francis Gary Power, U-2 reconnaissance pilot held by the Soviets for spying, in an i An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away,
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In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the
unreflective creation, the truth of immortality....The most ideal human passion is love, which is
also the m I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.
-- Calvin Coolidge Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
-- James Joyce Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
-- ROBERT FROST Organisations blah bl "The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if
possible, speak a few reasonable words.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly -- that is the first law of nature." (Francois Marie Ar Organisations
Well, I think that it's a- it's had some difficult times but I think we have- we, I think, have been able
to make some very good progress and it's- I would say that it's- it's- it's delightful that w Harpo, she's a lovely person. She deserves a good husband. Marry her before she finds one.
-- Oscar Levant, to Harpo Marx upon meeting Harpo's fiancee A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
-- Elsa Schiapirelli Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
-- Henry Ford Organisations A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi The only thing that holds a marriage together is the husband bein' big enough to keep his mouth
shut, to step back and see where his wife is wrong.
-- Archie Bunker, character on "All in the Family, "I would rather die standing than live on my knees!" (Emiliano Zapata) Organisations
Oregon Democratic Senate candidate Tom Bruggere, in describing his support for
comprehensive health care during a candidates' forum, said he supported "erection-to-
resurrection" coverage. He later a We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from
ourselves.
-- Tom Robbins Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
-- The Artist Formerly Known As Prince If you don't double-click me, I can't do anything.
-- John Aniston, on how computers have taken over his life Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an
inquest.
-- H. L. Mencken Organisations then the world 's mine oyster
-- William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
-- Robert J. Oppenheimer, citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear
explosion Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them
tender.
-- Mary Buckley Organisations
"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question." (Eugene Ionesco) The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going
to make fun of you.
-- Woody Allen "The masses are far more likely to believe a big lie than several small ones." (Adolf Hitler) Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.
-- Chinese Proverb Art and science have their meeting point in method.
-- Edward Bulwer-Lytton Organisations Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx "Self confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." (Samuel Johnson) Organisations
"When even one American--who has done nothing wrong--is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth--then all Americans are in peril." (Harry S. Truman) The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
- Emile Zola "No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous." (Henry B. Adams) Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of
genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
-- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart All you need is love.
-- The Beatles, song title Organisations A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
-- John Ciardi Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
-- G. K. Chesterton Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with
the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals.
-- Cynthia Heimel Organisations
Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not
even talking about the programs).
-- Nicholas Negroponte Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman "The order of the world is always right - such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin." (Jean Baudrillard) Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
-- James Matthew Barrie "Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper." (Larry Flynt) Organisations Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
-- Samuel Paterson A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
-- George Santayana To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it;
whenever you're right, shut up.
-- Ogden Nash Organisations
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to
know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow, The closer I'm bound in love to you, the closer I am to free.
-- Indigo Girls, song lyric This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more
they possess.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke "Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free." (James Douglas Morrison, lead singer of The Doors) Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
-- George Clemenceau Organisations I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
-- William Butler Yeats, from "He wishes for the cloths of heaven" Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
-- Josh Billings "A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits." (Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president, 1856-1924) Organisations
