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Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.

Jacob M. Appel

Adoption is not about finding children for families, it's about finding families for children

Joyce Maguire Pavao

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance. The speed of the legs, the dexterity of the body, the grace of the swing, the elusiveness of the slide - these are the features that make Americans everywhere forget the last syllable of a man's last name or the pigmentation of his skin

Branch Rickey

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

John Stuart Mill

There is no disease, bodily or mental, which adoption of vegetable diet, and pure water has not infallibly mitigated, wherever the experiment has been fairly tried.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that they're entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration.

John Edwards

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my lfe to this child.

Jamie Lee Curtis

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.

Jamie Lee Curtis

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

Bruce Willis

We need a spirit of adoption to take us out of the foundling hospital of the world, and to put us into the celestial family.

George Dana Boardman the Younger