“But it is a great day still of victory for what is right and for tikkun.”
“For each of the eight nights of Chanukah we light an additional branch of the chanukiah as a reminder of the great miracle of the Maccabees—that they, against all odds, were able to rededicate and reclaim the ancient Temple in Jerusalem from the hands of the Syrian –Greeks."
“You know, it’s not the great moment that is hard. It’s the little ones. We find it easy to fantasize about what we would do if we were called to make a great sacrifice – even the ultimate sacrifice – for a cause we believe in."
“Not long after we are born, we begin to pick up signals about what is fitting and what is not when it comes to how we live. These signals vary from generation to generation—and depending on our ethnicity, religion, and so forth."
“Many people ask me why the Human Rights Campaign has begun the Religion and Faith Program."
“As our society crawls toward diversity and inclusiveness, the moral imperative calls for the prophetic voices of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the same manner that the civil rights movement in this country called for the prophetic voices of African
Americans.”