Occupation: Activist Birth: March 17, 1912 Death: August 24, 1987
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 ….
You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people..
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true..
Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice..
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 an….
My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in t….
Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help t….
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. . ..
We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers..
If anyone thinks they're going to get anything out of the Reagan administration for any particular group, they're wrong! You have to all combine and ….
When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow..
Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will r….
The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader..
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..
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 ….
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human being….
God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying..
People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself..
When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going to Mississipp….
The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for simil….
Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it..