People Will Never Fight For

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.

Twenty-five, 30 Years Ago, The Barometer Of Human Rights In The United States Were Black People. That Is No Longer True. The Barometer For Judging The Character Of People In Regard To Human Rights Is Now Those Who Consider Themselves Gay, Homosexual, Lesbian.

Today, Blacks Are No Longer The Litmus Paper Or The Barometer Of Social Change. Blacks Are In Every Segment Of Society And There Are Laws That Help To Protect Them From Racial Discrimination. The New ‘niggers’ Are Gays. It Is In This Sense That Gay People Are The New Barometer For Social Change. The Question Of Social Change Should Be Framed With The Most Vulnerable Group In Mind: Gay People.

The Journey Of Reconciliation Was Organized Not Only To Devise Techniques For Eliminating Jim Crow In Travel, But Also As A Training Ground For Similar Peaceful Projects Against Discrimination In Such Major Areas As Employment And In The Armed Services.

Martin Luther King, With Whom I Worked Very Closely, Became Very Distressed When A Number Of The Ministers Working For Him Wanted Him To Dismiss Me From His Staff Because Of My Homosexuality.