The Real Radical Is That

When An Individual Is Protesting Society's Refusal To Acknowledge His Dignity As A Human Being, His Very Act Of Protest Confers Dignity On Him.

If We Want To Do Away With The Injustice To Gays It Will Not Be Done Because We Get Rid Of The Injustice To Gays. It Will Be Done Because We Are Forwarding The Effort For The Elimination Of Injustice To All. And We Will Win The Rights For Gays, Or Blacks, Or Hispanics, Or Women Within The Context Of Whether We Are Fighting For All.

I Believe In Social Dislocation And Creative Trouble.

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.

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.