A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

I do believe that non-violent civil disobedience is a very important and useful tactic.

To all my friends in Los Angeles: the Sultan of Brunei, owner of the Beverly Hills Hotel, has signed legislation calling for gay people to be stoned to death.

People's lives can be transformed by the movement.

If you tell me I can't understand you because of my color or you can't understand me because of your sexual orientation or she can't understand us because of her faith, well, if you can't have empathy how will you ever have solidarity?

When I was saving pills to kill myself, I thought there was no hope. I thought my life was over because I was a homosexual.

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.