During the Montgomery Bus Boycott of the mid 1950s, a reporter asked civil rights activist Thurgood Marshall, “Do you think all Negroes should boycott the buses?” Marshall replied, “Oh, by no means. I think all freedom-loving Americans should boycott the buses.”
Marshall was able to highlight the fact that opposition to racial segregation was not merely a “black issue,” it was an issue that all just and reasonable people should support, regardless of their race. In a similar vein, when someone asks me if I think all Catholics should oppose legal abortion, I reply, “Oh, by no means. I think all reasonablepeople should oppose legal abortion.” …
