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Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

Bayard Rustin

The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don’t turn
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Body Needs Weapon
I would say that the black newspapers have played it very straight. If I was attacked they simply published that I was attacked.
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Attack Newspaper Play Publish Straight
If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
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Democracy Desire Mean
Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for judging the character of people in regard to human rights is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian.
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Character Gay Rights
You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
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Freedom Movement People
When you’re wrong, you’re wrong. But when you’re right, you’re wrong anyhow.
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Anyhow Racism Right Wrong
There are three ways in which one can deal with an injustice. (a) One can accept it without protest. (b) On can seek to avoid it. (c) One can resist the injustice non-violently. To accept it is to perpetuate it.
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Accept Injustice Protest Seek Violent Way
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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Gay Law People
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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Afraid Behave Truth
I don’t want to seem intolerant to them and I think we have to say that to them with a great deal of affection, but remaining in the closet is the other side of the prejudice against gays. Because until you challenge it, you are not playing an active role in fighting it.
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Deal Intolerant Prejudice Remaining Think
if I was defended they simply said I had been defended. But I don’t think they have taken any effort at maligning me or maligning gays or making any effort to give to people anything that wasn’t news.
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Anything Defend Effort Simply
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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Acknowledge Dignity Society
God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.
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Humanity Peace Ubuntu
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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Brother Goal Men
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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Birth Mind Place Plot
The moral man is he who is opposed to injustice per se, opposed to injustice wherever he finds it; the moral man looks for injustice first of all in himself.
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Firsts Looks Men

Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

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