My activism did not spring from being gay, or for that matter, from my being black. Rather it is rooted, fundamentally, in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me. Those values are based on a concept that of a single human family and the belief that members of that family are equal.
—Bayard Rustin, activist/author (via commiepinkofag)


