Warriors Don't Cry

by Melba Pattillo Beals

Until I am welcomed everywhere as an equal simply because I am human, I remain a warrior on a battlefield that I must not leave. I continue to be a warrior who does not cry but who instead takes action. If one person is denied equality, we are all denied equality. —Melba Pattillo Beals

The effort to separate ourselves whether by race, creed, color, religion, or status is as costly to the separator as to those who would be separated.