“Dallas Principle #1: Full civil rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals must be enacted now. Delay and excuses are no longer acceptable. www.ActOnPrinciples.org”
The Dallas Principles
“Dallas Principle #4: Religious beliefs are not a basis upon which to affirm or deny civil rights. www.ActOnPrinciples.org”
“Dallas Principle #3: Separate is never equal. www.ActOnPrinciples.org”
“Dallas Principle #2: We will not leave any part of our community behind. www.ActOnPrinciples.org”
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
Thomas Jefferson
“Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.”
Bernard M. Baruch
“A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.”
Lyndon B. Johnson