To Be Afraid Is To

We Are All One - And If We Don't Know It, We Will Learn It The Hard Way.

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.

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.

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.

When I Say I Love Eastland, It Sounds Preposterous A Man Who Brutalizes People. But You Love Him Or You Wouldn't Be Here. You're Going To Mississippi To Create Social Change And You Love Eastland In Your Desire To Create Conditions Which Will Redeem His Children. Loving Your Enemy Is Manifest In Putting Your Arms Not Around The Man But Around The Social Situation, To Take Power From Those Who Misuse It At Which Point They Can Become Human Too.