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On Sexual Orientation

"And one of the things that -- that the -- the AIDS activists said regularly back then was, oh, this is only a matter of time before it spreads to the heterosexual community. It's only a matter of time. And they used that as -- as one of the weapons to try to get people like Reagan to start talking about it from their standpoint. And of course it -- it hasn't. It -- it didn't, and it hasn't, other than in Africa, and in Africa it is -- it is being spread not just by -- it -- it--it's promiscuity that --that--that spreads this, if you want to know the truth. It's promiscuity. But it -- it hasn't made that jump to the heterosexual community."-

"The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit."-

"When a gay person turns his back on you, it is anything but an insult; it's an invitation."-

On Concern for Others

"Citizen service is a repudiation of the principles upon which our country was based. We are all here for ourselves."-

"One of the things I want to do before I die is conduct the Homeless Olympics "- the 10-meter Shopping Cart Relay; the Dumpster Dig; and the Hop, Skip, and Trip."-

"$14,400 for a family of four. That's not so bad."-

"Can you imagine some poor welfare recipient in Arizona doesn't know what's up, doesn't know why the check's not as big, doesn't know why the food stamps don't stick to whatever he tries to mail?"-

"Poverty is not the root cause of crime."-

"I don't give a hoot that [Columbus] gave some Indians a disease that they didn't have immunity against."-

"There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?"-

On Love

"I know every square inch of my glorious naked body."-

"I love hugging myself; I love human contact."-

"Screw the world."-

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Randall Amster, J.D., Ph.D., teaches Peace Studies at Prescott College, and serves as the Executive Director of the Peace & Justice Studies Association. His most recent books include the co-edited volume Building Cultures of Peace: Transdisciplinary (more...)
 
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