My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
Bio: Sir Frederick Henry Royce, 1st Baronet was an English engineer and car designer who, with Charles Rolls and Claude Johnson, founded the Rolls-Royce company.