Dan Savage Quotes about School

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

Ultimately life is disease, death and oblivion. It's still better than high school.

School, Disease, Life Is

"Q&A With Dan Savage: On Obama, Fox News’ Shepard Smith and Success of ‘It Gets Better’ Project". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2011.

And that really captures the difference for the bullied straight kid versus the bullied gay kid, is that the bullied straight kid goes home to a shoulder to cry on and support and can talk freely about his experience at school and why he's being bullied. [...] And I couldn't go home and open up to my parents.

Dan Savage

Home, School, Kids

"Dan Savage: For Gay Teens, Life 'Gets Better'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 23, 2011.

The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.

Dan Savage

School, Kids, Eye

"Stranger To Stranger: Dan Savage". Interview with Christopher Frizzelle, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 3, 2012.

Yes, yes: Taking out Saddam Hussein means war, and war is bad for children and other living things. I went to grade school in the 1970s, and I recall the poster. But there are times when war is not only a tragic and unavoidable necessity, but also good for children and other living things.

Dan Savage

Children, War, School

You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.

Dan Savage

School, Kids, Gay

"Q&A With Dan Savage: On Obama, Fox News’ Shepard Smith and Success of ‘It Gets Better’ Project". Interview with Joshua Kors, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 09, 2011.