My Activism Did Not Spring From Being

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.

If I Do Not Fight Bigotry Wherever It Is, Bigotry Is Thereby Strengthened. And To The Degree That It Is Strengthened, It Will, Thereby, Have The Power To Turn On Me.

Martin Luther King, With Whom I Worked Very Closely, Became Very Distressed When A Number Of The Ministers Working For Him Wanted Him To Dismiss Me From His Staff Because Of My Homosexuality.

When You're Wrong, You're Wrong. But When You're Right, You're Wrong Anyhow.

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.