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And so it started to become increasingly clear to me that this pitting of the two movements against each other actually didn't make sense, and that they were in fact much, much more interconnected, and that, in fact, some of the way that the gay rights movement has been able to make such incredible gains so quickly is that it's used some of the same tactics and strategies that were first laid down by the civil rights movement.

This was a protest campaign against Montgomery, Alabama's segregation on their public transit system, and it began when a woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white person.

It's known as Stonewall, in 1969, and it's where a group of LGBT patrons fought back against police beatings at a Greenwich Village bar that sparked three days of rioting.

Incidentally, black and latino LGBT folks were at the forefront of this rebellion, and it's a really interesting example of the intersection of our struggles against racism, homophobia, gender identity and police brutality.

We are learning from each others' strength and endurance, not against our bodies and our diagnoses, but against a world that exceptionalizes and objectifies us.

I had done some activism in college, so I decided to help a local group hang door knockers against animal testing.

But I think it's worth the effort, because the alternative, to blindly fight all hackers, is to go against the power you cannot control at the cost of stifling innovation and regulating knowledge.

This proved that Anonymous and this idea can rally the masses from the keyboards to the streets, and it laid the foundations for dozens of future operations against perceived injustices to their online and offline world.

So I got out my yellow pad, I drew a line down the middle, and I tried my best to think of the reasons for and against each alternative.

So when we face hard choices, we shouldn't beat our head against a wall trying to figure out which alternative is better.

Instead, I choose to use my experience to fight back against terrorism, against the bigotry.

For the victims of terrorism, I will speak out against these senseless acts and condemn my father's actions.

If the global finance sector continues to lend money to tobacco companies, to invest in tobacco companies, and to strive to profit from tobacco companies, we are working against each other.

If we now make the same observation six months later when the Earth has moved to this position in June, we look at that same star and we see it against a different backdrop.

All of the grand challenges that we face today, like climate change and human rights and demographics and terrorism and pandemics and narco-trafficking and human slavery and species loss, I could go on, we're not making an awful lot of progress against an awful lot of those challenges.

This is the problem: countries competing against each other, countries fighting against each other.

And Somaly Mam, a Cambodian activist who fights passionately against child prostitution.

When I look back now, I think that that was the moment that set me on the path was to writing a book called "Your Fatwa Does Not Apply Here: Untold Stories from the Fight Against Muslim Fundamentalism."

My father's country taught me in that dark decade of the 1990s that the popular struggle against Muslim fundamentalism is one of the most important and overlooked human rights struggles in the world.

Now let me be clear that I support an effective struggle against fundamentalism, but also a struggle that must itself respect international law, so nothing I am saying should be taken as a justification for refusals to democratize, and here I send out a shout-out of support to the pro-democracy movement in Algeria today, Barakat.

These movements as a whole purvey discrimination against religious minorities and sexual minorities.

I'm painfully aware that there has been an increase in discrimination against Muslims in recent years in countries like the U.K. and the U.S., and that too is a matter of grave concern, but I firmly believe that telling these counter-stereotypical stories of people of Muslim heritage who have confronted the fundamentalists and been their primary victims is also a great way of countering that discrimination.

She's been in the post since 2008 and actually opened an office to investigate cases of violence against women, which she says is the most important area in her mandate.

Scores of Somali-American kids came out to embrace sport despite the fatwa against it.

I want a scientific theory of consciousness that works, and for a long time, I banged my head against the wall looking for a theory of consciousness in purely physical terms that would work.

When the tip of the device is pressed against tissue, the mechanism expands outwards and wedges in place against the wall.

Have you ever put on a pair of pants and then much later realized that there was a loose sock smushed up against your thigh?

He didn't want to wait until somebody tried to act against the regime.

That's why not many East Germans tried to fight against the Communist regime.

First, in 1989, the leadership in East Germany was uncertain what to do against the growing protest of people.

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