#orientation

All Marines, sailors and civilian Marines, regardless of sexual orientation, are Marines first. Every Marine is a valued member of our war-fighting team. ↗

— James F. Amos

#every #first #marine #marines #member

I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation. ↗

— Chastity Bono

#any #assimilation #believe #big #deal

Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#embrace #faculty #human #incompatible #just

I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person. ↗

— Diana Ross

#color #find #gay #hard #i

While I don't often use the word, the technically precise term for my orientation is bisexual. I believe bisexuality is not a choice, it is a fact. What I have 'chosen' is to be in a gay relationship. ↗

— Cynthia Nixon

#bisexual #bisexuality #choice #chosen #fact

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation. ↗

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

#orientation #presupposes

I believe all Americans who believe in freedom, tolerance and human rights have a responsibility to oppose bigotry and prejudice based on sexual orientation. ↗

— Coretta Scott King

#based #believe #freedom #human #human rights