Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination.
BAYARD RUSTIN
Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
More Bayard Rustin Quotes
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Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination.
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When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him.
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Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.
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When you’re wrong, you’re wrong. But when you’re right, you’re wrong anyhow.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
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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.
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If anyone thinks they’re going to get anything out of the Reagan administration for any particular group, they’re wrong!
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The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .
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The proof that one truly believes is in action.
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I would say except when I have been attacked the black community has seldom seen fit to even mention the gay aspect. And since when I have been attacked I have usually been defended by the black community,
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The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.
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