God Does Not Require Us

I Would Say Except When I Have Been Attacked The Black Community Has Seldom Seen Fit To Even Mention The Gay Aspect. And Since When I Have Been Attacked I Have Usually Been Defended By The Black Community, I Would Say That The Black Newspapers Have Played It Very Straight. If I Was Attacked They Simply Published That I Was Attacked, If I Was Defended They Simply Said I Had Been Defended. But I Don't Think They Have Taken Any Effort At Maligning Me Or Maligning Gays Or Making Any Effort To Give To People Anything That Wasn't News.

Gays Are Beginning To Realize What Blacks Learned Long Ago: Unless You Are Out Here Fighting For Yourself Then Nobody Else Will Help You. I Think The Gay Community Has A Moral Obligation To Continue The Fight.

The Organizers And Perpetuators Of Segregation Are As Much The Enemy Of America As Any Foreign Invader.

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.