Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it. There are three ways ….

The proof that one truly believes is in action..

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 f….

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people. Therefore join the movement as individuals against anti-Semitism, join the movements….

If people do not organize in the name of their interest, the world will not take them as being serious. And that is the chief reason that every perso….

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble..

I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to th….

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 attac….

If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a s….

Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to foll….

I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, ….

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 powe….

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 forw….

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 ….

Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging th….

Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitut….

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….

I believe there are certain types of movements which cannot be married..

If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we woul….

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 ….

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….