Influences
Rogers's cousin was American political activist and leading member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement Mario Savio. He has repeatedly cited Savio's work as an influence in his activism. Rogers also cites Sirius-XM Radio host Michelangelo Signorile as an influence in his work. Signorile started the modern outing movement. Rogers frequently mentions his experience working with adolescents at the Hetrick-Martin Institute and Harvey Milk High School as a motivating force behind his activism.
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“Do not seek anxiously to be developed, to subject yourself to many influences to be played on; it is all dissipation.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)
“However diligent she may be, however dedicated, no mother can escape the larger influences of culture, biology, fate . . . until we can actually live in a society where mothers and children genuinely matter, ours is an essentially powerless responsibility. Mothers carry out most of the work orders, but most of the rules governing our lives are shaped by outside influences.”
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