Comments on: Quote of the Day http://donklephant.com/2006/06/06/quote-of-the-day-7/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:53:41 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: sleipner http://donklephant.com/2006/06/06/quote-of-the-day-7/comment-page-1/#comment-33256 sleipner Fri, 09 Jun 2006 23:51:17 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/06/06/quote-of-the-day-7/#comment-33256 What really gets me is that there's a lot of black people out there who get really pissed off when the gay rights movement is compared to the civil rights movement. To me, the way they're acting is almost exactly like the attitudes and actions that southern whites took against Rosa Parks and her fellow revolutionaries. We gays have to sit in the back of the bus when it comes to many of the legal rights everyone else takes for granted. What really gets me is that there’s a lot of black people out there who get really pissed off when the gay rights movement is compared to the civil rights movement. To me, the way they’re acting is almost exactly like the attitudes and actions that southern whites took against Rosa Parks and her fellow revolutionaries. We gays have to sit in the back of the bus when it comes to many of the legal rights everyone else takes for granted.

]]> By: Greg Richards http://donklephant.com/2006/06/06/quote-of-the-day-7/comment-page-1/#comment-32309 Greg Richards Tue, 06 Jun 2006 20:17:57 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2006/06/06/quote-of-the-day-7/#comment-32309 In the original version of a speech prepared for the March on Washington, in 1963; John Lewis an African-American who later went on to become a U.S. Congressmen asked questions that need to be answered yet again: "For the first time in 100 years this nation is being awakened to the fact that segregation is evil and that it must be destroyed in all forms. Your presence today proves that you have been aroused to the point of action. We are now involved in a serious revolution. This nation is still a place of cheap political leaders who build their career on immoral compromises and ally themselves with open forms of political, economic and social exploitation. What political leader here can stand up and say ‘My party is the party of principles? We all recognize the fact that if any radical social, political and economic changes are to take place in our society, the people, the masses, must bring them about. In the struggle we must seek more than more civil rights; we must work for the community love, peace, and true brotherhood." http://therumorhaswings.blogspot.com/2006/06/cheap-political-leadership.html In the original version of a speech prepared for the March on Washington, in 1963; John Lewis an African-American who later went on to become a U.S. Congressmen asked questions that need to be answered yet again:

“For the first time in 100 years this nation is being awakened to the fact that segregation is evil and that it must be destroyed in all forms. Your presence today proves that you have been aroused to the point of action. We are now involved in a serious revolution. This nation is still a place of cheap political leaders who build their career on immoral compromises and ally themselves with open forms of political, economic and social exploitation.

What political leader here can stand up and say ‘My party is the party of principles?

We all recognize the fact that if any radical social, political and economic changes are to take place in our society, the people, the masses, must bring them about. In the struggle we must seek more than more civil rights; we must work for the community love, peace, and true brotherhood.”

http://therumorhaswings.blogspot.com/2006/06/cheap-political-leadership.html

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