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: Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, Comte Carnot, the Organizer of Victory in the French Revolutionary Wars, was a French politician, engineer, freemason and mathematician.
