When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I think the gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight.

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

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.

People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

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.