"My activism did not spring from my 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."
Bayard Rustin was an American civil rights activist and strategist who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington. He was also a prominent advocate of nonviolence, labor rights, and human rights.