Martin Luther King, With Whom I Worked

If Anyone Thinks They're Going To Get Anything Out Of The Reagan Administration For Any Particular Group, They're Wrong! You Have To All Combine And Fight A Head-on Battle - In The Name Of Justice And Equality - And Even That's Going To Be Difficult. But If We Let Ourselves Get Separated So That We're Working For Gays Or School Children Or The Aged, We're In Trouble.

If I Do Not Fight Bigotry Wherever It Is, Bigotry Is Thereby Strengthened. And To The Degree That It Is Strengthened, It Will, Thereby, Have The Power To Turn On Me.

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.

The Real Radical Is That Person Who Has A Vision Of Equality And Is Willing To Do Those Things That Will Bring Reality Closer To That Vision. . .

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.