I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble..

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….

The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn.

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….

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 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….

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 ….

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

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….

We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way..

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 ….

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….

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….

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

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

The proof that one truly believes is in action..