When you lose the gayborhoods, you lose the political power that comes when you're concentrated in precincts, and you also lose the cultural vitality.

I recently heard young people talking about collective bargaining agreements - I hadn't heard young people use that phrase in forever!

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

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

We spend countless hours talking about people's feelings and issues that aren't going to change anything.

I get to interact with a bunch of young people that are up against despair constantly.

If you're gonna build units for the rich, you're gonna build units for the poor.