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Sparks: Hungary: Orban-era LGBTQ law infringes human rights, ECJ rules

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A lamp in broad daylight reveals that some still prefer the shadows where their common sense has gone to hide.

Diogenes of Sinope

If the mind is denied knowledge of its true nature, it is no wonder that prejudice becomes the measure of humanity.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Freedom is not a decree from a court, but a path cleared for those who need to walk it, and I know the way.

Harriet Tubman

To protect children from knowledge is merely to protect ignorance from the light of truth, which is a most tedious affair.

Oscar Wilde

Common sense dictates that when laws deny humanity to some, they deny it to all, and that is a tyranny that must be overturned.

Thomas Paine

The true measure of a nation’s prosperity is not its treasury, but the well-being of all its citizens, not merely a favored few.

Harriet Martineau

Why do men consent to laws that diminish their very being, when a simple withdrawal of consent would render them powerless?

Étienne de La Boétie

The variation in human expression, like that in finches' beaks, appears to be a natural phenomenon that some systems seek to suppress.

Charles Darwin

When the common sense of a nation dictates who may love and how, the cultural hegemony is doing the work of the prison before the bars are even built.

Antonio Gramsci

True liberation means dismantling all systems that constrain the natural blossoming of human identity, not merely reforming their edges.

Rosa Luxemburg

One finds that legislating against identity is rather like trying to legislate against the weather; one may pass the law, but the rain still falls.

British Absurdist (composite)

To argue a matter of human dignity as if it were a matter of sacred text is to confuse the rhetorical with the demonstrative, and to misunderstand both.

Averroës (Ibn Rushd)

Protecting children from knowledge of their own kind is a peculiar form of societal grooming, ensuring they remain perfectly tame for later disappointment.

Saki (H.H. Munro)

When a nation’s laws deny the full humanity of its people, it is not the people who are found wanting, but the very foundation of the nation itself.

Frederick Douglass

These laws, dressed in the guise of protection, merely codify the prejudice that always seeks to control and diminish certain lives.

Ida B. Wells

A truly virtuous society extends its moral consideration to all its members, for a stain on one is a blemish on the whole.

Hannah More