I Believe In Social Dislocation

I Would Say Except When I Have Been Attacked The Black Community Has Seldom Seen Fit To Even Mention The Gay Aspect. And Since When I Have Been Attacked I Have Usually Been Defended By The Black Community, I Would Say That The Black Newspapers Have Played It Very Straight. If I Was Attacked They Simply Published That I Was Attacked, If I Was Defended They Simply Said I Had Been Defended. But I Don't Think They Have Taken Any Effort At Maligning Me Or Maligning Gays Or Making Any Effort To Give To People Anything That Wasn't News.

Both Morally And Practically, Segregation Is To Me A Basic Injustice. Since I Believe It To Be So, I Must Attempt To Remove It. There Are Three Ways In Which One Can Deal With An Injustice. (a) One Can Accept It Without Protest. (b) On Can Seek To Avoid It. (c) One Can Resist The Injustice Non-violently. To Accept It Is To Perpetuate It.

Black Gay Activists Should Try To Build Coalitions Of People For The Elimination Of All Injustice.

I Am An Opponent Of War And Of War Preparations And An Opponent Of Universal Military Training And Conscription; But Entirely Apart From That Issue, I Hold That Segregation In Any Part Of The Body Politic Is An Act Of Slavery And An Act Of War.

Every Indifference To Prejudice Is Suicide Because, If I Don’t Fight All Bigotry, Bigotry Itself Will Be Strengthened And, Sooner Or Later, It Will Return On Me.