Out in the Silence (2009)

Joe Wilson: Self

Quotes 

• Joe Wilson : What they call agenda, we call our lives.

• [first lines] 

  Joe Wilson : I've lived in Washington, D.C. for twenty years. It's where I met Dean, playing pick-up basketball, and made a life for myself. But no matter how long you've been away from home or how much you've changed, the place, you were born and raised in, always stays some place deep inside. For me, that place is Oil City. A small town with small town values in the hills of western Pennsylvania.

• Joe Wilson : [after speaking in front of the school board]  It was obvious the school board wasn't concerned about C.J. or any gay student.

• Joe Wilson : This place is rough. If you are not a man, white, who likes to do the missionary position, it's over.

• Joe Wilson : Ever since the wedding announcement, I felt I'd been battling against people who use religion to deny people their basic rights and visibility. Pastor Micklos was open to looking at things in a different way. I never thought I'd become friends with someone who didn't view me as his equal. But his willingness to examine his beliefs, helped me see that not all religious people fell into the box I often put them in.

• Diane Granley : [head of the American Family Association of Pennsylvania speaking at the hearing on proposed anti-discrimination legislation]  Civil rights have long been fought for disenfranchised groups of people. African-Americans led the fight for civil rights, seeking the right to vote and no longer requiring to sit in the back of a bus. But a person's skin color and national origin is unchangeable.

  Joe Wilson : Again, Gramley was trying to use race as a wedge to divide. But this time she was dealing with people experienced in civil rights law.