Injustice Anywhere Is An Assault On All

Art And Activism Can Be Symbiotic. They Don't Have To Be, Of Course; They Can Also Be Contradictory.

I'm Wary Of Government. Part Of [the Tea Party] Impulse Is To Dislike And Be Worried About The Rich. I'm That Way Too. So I Don't Find Them To Be As Atrocious As Most People Do, As Your Liberals Do. I'm Not A Liberal.

Now In My View, If You Were To Line Up The Presidents In The Order Of Who Made The Greatest Accomplishments, You'd Put Lyndon Johnson In That Arena With Both Roosevelts Probably, And [abraham] Lincoln And So On. But The Idea That Lyndon Johnson Was Operating As A Free Agent And Coming Up With These Ideas On His Own Is Nonsense.

Even There, [barack] Obama's Generals, His Pentagon, They're Telling Him What To Do. And The Force For Gay Rights Is Inevitable. And You Can Say Obama Will Help Us, And Maybe He Will, But Only If We Have Something On The Ground That Will Make Him Help Us. Frankly, The Gay Movement On The Ground Has Been One Of The Great Propulsive Things That Has Made Politicians Do What They Do.

[the Whole First Year At University] Was A Great Time For Me And Great Time Of Awakening.