But next year, they will be back. We must seize this historic moment of public engagement to reach out to non-gay people. We must reject opponents' efforts, as well as the ambivalence, denial, or timidity of those within our own movement, who wish to avoid this battle and moment. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are people who want crops without plowing up the ground.
Power concedes nothing without a demand.
It never did and never will. People might not get all they work for in this world, but they certainly must work for all they get. Marriage is a basic human right. Dr. King used to say when people talked about interracial marriage, 'Races do not fall in love and get married. I have known racism.