The Proof That One Truly Believes Is

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 Would Have Achieved The Ultimate Goal Of Human Freedom.

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.

Let Us Be Enraged About Injustice, But Let Us Not Be Destroyed By It.

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.

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 Society That Is Democratic, Then Democracy Must Become A Means As Well As An End.