It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are, indeed, part of the problem.

As an African American child growing up in the segregated South, I was told, one way or another, almost every day of my life, that I wasn't as good as a white child.

I still hear people say that I should not be talking about the rights of lesbian and gay people and I should stick to the issue of racial justice. But I hasten to remind them that Martin Luther King Jr. said, 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' I appeal to everyone who believes in Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream to make room at the table of brother- and sisterhood for lesbian and gay people.

When you are willing to make sacrifices for a great cause, you will never be alone.

Lesbian and gay people are a permanent part of the American workforce, who currently have no protection from the arbitrary abuse of their rights on the job.

How many must die before we can really have a free and true and peaceful society?

Without Coretta Scott King, there would not have been a Martin Luther King, Jr. in the way that we know him.