An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when the stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.

It is certain, in any case, that ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

No people come into possession of a culture without having paid a heavy price for it.

History is not a procession of illustrious people. It's about what happens to a people. Millions of anonymous people is what history is about.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.