I Believe There Are Certain Types Of

When An Individual Is Protesting Society's Refusal To Acknowledge His Dignity As A Human Being, His Very Act Of Protest Confers Dignity On Him.

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.

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.

Every Gay Who Is In The Closet Is Ultimately A Threat To The Freedom Of Gays. I Don't Want To Seem Intolerant To Them And I Think We Have To Say That To Them With A Great Deal Of Affection, But Remaining In The Closet Is The Other Side Of The Prejudice Against Gays. Because Until You Challenge It, You Are Not Playing An Active Role In Fighting It.

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.