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

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

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

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

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

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

Ida B. Wells
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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