The Real Radical Is That Person Who

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. . .

Conscription For War Is Inconsistent With Freedom Of Conscience, Which Is Not Merely The Right To Believe But To Act On The Degree Of Truth That One Receives, To Follow A Vocation Which Is God-inspired And God-directed.

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.

Looking Back At His Career, Mr. Rustin, A Quaker, Once Wrote: ‘the Principal Factors Which Influenced My Life Are 1) Nonviolent Tactics; 2) Constitutional Means; 3) Democratic Procedures; 4) Respect For Human Personality; 5) A Belief That All People Are One.’

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.