My Activism Did Not Spring From Being

If We Want To Do Away With The Injustice To Gays It Will Not Be Done Because We Get Rid Of The Injustice To Gays. It Will Be Done Because We Are Forwarding The Effort For The Elimination Of Injustice To All. And We Will Win The Rights For Gays, Or Blacks, Or Hispanics, Or Women Within The Context Of Whether We Are Fighting For All.

My Activism Did Not Spring From My Being Gay, Or, For That Matter, From My Being Black. Rather, It Is Rooted Fundamentally In My Quaker Upbringing And The Values That Were Instilled In Me By My Grandparents Who Reared Me.

The Real Radical Is That Person Who Has A Vision Of Equality And Is Willing To Do Those Things That Will Bring Reality Closer To That Vision. . .

There Is A Strong Moralistic Strain In The Civil Rights Movement That Would Remind Us That Power Corrupts, Forgetting That The Absence Of Power Also Corrupts.

The Moral Man Is He Who Is Opposed To Injustice Per Se, Opposed To Injustice Wherever He Finds It; The Moral Man Looks For Injustice First Of All In Himself.