The bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why hes being bullied. I couldnt go home and open up to my parents. – Dan Savage
One mans blasphemy doesnt override other peoples free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought. – Dan Savage
Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. Its still better than high school. – Dan Savage
A huge part of what animates homophobia among young people is paranoia and fear of their own capacity to be gay themselves. – Dan Savage
We think that diamonds are very important, gold is very important, all these minerals are very important. We call them precious minerals, but they are all forms of the soil. But that part of this mineral that is on top, like it is the skin of the earth, that is the most precious of the commons. – Wangari Maathai (1940–2011), Dirt! The Movie, 2009