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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.

Bayard Rustin

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.
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Community Peace Ubuntu
Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it.
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Believe Political Three
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.
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Movement Rights Strong
Loving your enemy is manifest in putting your arms not around the man but around the social situation, to take power from those who misuse it at which point they can become human too.
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Human Manifest Situation Social
The new ‘niggers’ are gays. It is in this sense that gay people are the new barometer for social change. The question of social change should be framed with the most vulnerable group in mind: gay people.
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Barometer Change Nigger Social Vulnerable
You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
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Freedom Movement People
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
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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Children Fighting School
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
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
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
We are all one – and if we don’t know it, we will learn it the hard way.
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Hard Knows One Way
I believe there are certain types of movements which cannot be married.
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Believe Married Movement
Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.
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Homosexuality Kings Numbers
Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel’s existence.
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Country Democracy Support

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