BiographyType: Gay activist, author and journalist Born: 1930 Died: 1994 Rubin, a typesetter by trade, came to South Florida in the mid-1970s from California, where he had been in the gay rights movement. His first activism in South Florida was as a political organizer for the 1977 gay rights referendum in Dade County, which was defeated. Mr. Rubin also began trying to get Broward gays and lesbians politically involved. He was the founding chairman of the Broward County Gay Pride Committee in 1980 and of the Dolphin Democratic Club in 1984. |
What do I think? I think it makes no difference what I think.
The world is real; philosophy is the illusion.
Sometimes out of sheer perversity reality conforms to my wishes.
Every language has its own word for the sun, but the sun us always the same.
To be ignorant as God is ignorant, knowing only what is real.
In my mind I lead a phantom's life. My neighbor makes me real.
Some things are too strange to believe, but nothing is too strange to have happened.
Language is a ladder that always falls short of reality.
A new theory doesn't change the way things actually happen.
When a war breaks out, everyone is on the wrong side.
Every human life has infinite value and to destroy even one is a crime against all humanity.
Every wars casts humanity back into the primordial slime.
The struggle against injustice is just another kind of injustice.
If wars still exist, it's because we don't love peace enough.
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