I Believe In Social Dislocation And Creative

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 Three Years In Federal Prison Because I Could Not Religiously And Conscientiously Accept Killing My Fellow Man.

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 In Which One Can Deal With An Injustice. (a) One Can Accept It Without Protest. (b) On Can Seek To Avoid It. (c) One Can Resist The Injustice Non-violently. To Accept It Is To Perpetuate It.

The Journey Of Reconciliation Was Organized Not Only To Devise Techniques For Eliminating Jim Crow In Travel, But Also As A Training Ground For Similar Peaceful Projects Against Discrimination In Such Major Areas As Employment And In The Armed Services.

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 The Character Of People In Regard To Human Rights Is Now Those Who Consider Themselves Gay, Homosexual, Lesbian.

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.