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If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

Bayard Rustin

When you’re wrong, you’re wrong. But when you’re right, you’re wrong anyhow.
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Anyhow Racism Right Wrong
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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Radical Real Vision
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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Afraid Behave Truth
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
You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
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Gay Rights Thinking
The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.
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Country Enemy Segregation
You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
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Freedom Movement People
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
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
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
When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn’t be here. You’re going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children.
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Children Inspirational Love Men
If people do not organize in the name of their interest, the world will not take them as being serious. And that is the chief reason that every person who is gay should join some gay organization. Because he must prove to the world that he cares about his own freedom.
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Gay Names Organization
I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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Believe Creative Trouble
Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
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Destroyed Enraged Injustice
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
Surely, I must at all times attempt to obey the law of the state. But when the will of God and the will of the state conflict, I am compelled to follow the will of God.
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Conflict Law States

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

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