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: Isaac Charles Parker was a United States Congressman for Missouri and a jurist, who presided over the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas for twenty-one years.
