In my study of the history of our nation, the thing that has most impressed me is this fact:
"Freedom is never given freely, but is rather always won by the blood, sweat and tears of the oppressed..."
And I remember that fact when we are faced with hatred inspired by fear and ignorance... I remember that our cause is right, because our cause is freedom -
Freedom to Live, Freedom to Serve, Freedom to Love
The freight elevator opened with a shudder. It sounded like a death rattle. Gloved attendants pushed the sheet-covered gurney down a long corridor, stopping at the doors to a vault. The doors opened onto a room of drawers and lockers surrounding a platform —like a morgue.
We gathered and held our breath as the attendants rolled back the shroud. Where one might expect a pair of legs were wooden sticks. Nicked and numbered, the sticks were not attached to a corpse but a neat pile of well-aged picket signs, hand-lettered, “First Class Citizenship for Homosexuals.” Frank Kameny stood silent, at near attention. And this man was rarely silent. The pickets, carried in 1965, were delivered at that moment in 2006 from his attic to the nation’s — the vault of the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution.
"Fear Eats the Soul"
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