Profound...

Some things to think about...

"When we are as angered by the rape and murder of 7 year old Sherrice Iverson, as we are about the murder of Matthew Shepard, we will come together.

"When we are as outraged by the history of this country as we are about the Texas slaying of James Byrd, Jr., we will begin to strategize.

"When we are as intolerant of the deportation of Mexicans from California, their ancestral homeland, as we are about being gay-bashed, we will move forward.

"When we understand that the boss who rapes his employee and the guard who rapes the prisoner and the police officer who rapes the sex-worker, all rape for the same reasons, we will strengthen.

"When we recognize that the people who created the myth of the black male rapist, 130 years ago, are the same people who created today's myth of "criminal" youth, we will no longer be controlled.

"And when we believe that fighting for the human rights of everyone is in our own self-interest, we will begin to create a just society free from hate violence of any kind."

-excerpted from Anne King's speech for San Francisco Women Against Rape, 10/17/98