William Patterson
William Patterson
African American civil rights activist who offered legal representation to communists, trade unionists, and African-Americans
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth27 August 1891
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As a Black gay man I would not want to have relations with a brother who was secretly going behind my back and then going back to his wife, knocking her up and possibly infecting them and putting them at risk, ... You are not doing yourself any good and particularly not doing the gay and Black community as a whole any good by you living a double life. It's all about loving each other and being responsible because that's how we're going to end this.
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I always wanted to learn how to fly. That was my only opportunity.
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In a special operations mission, a routine mission, if you're detected on the way to the target, you may as well turn around and go home. You failed.
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I stopped going to the conferences because most of (us) are all gone.
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I was proud that I made it through the program, because no one expected us to. They got rid of a lot of us for the slightest of reasons.
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Until developers decide what they really want to do in Franklin and until some of the property gets purchased, (enrollment is) very iffy.