Our movement for love is not just for ourselves, but it is to free everyone from the bonds of prejudice and fear. Like Nelson did, we can point out the homophobic behavior of some, but should never make these people into the "other." We must never get up on anyone.
It
was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom
of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white
and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be
liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another
man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of
prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away
someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom
is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of
their humanity.
--Nelson Mandela
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