The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.
BAYARD RUSTINConscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.
More Bayard Rustin Quotes
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To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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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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I believe there are certain types of movements which cannot be married.
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Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
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The proof that one truly believes is in action.
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We are all one – and if we don’t know it, we will learn it the hard way.
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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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I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.
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You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
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You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
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When you’re wrong, you’re wrong. But when you’re right, you’re wrong anyhow.
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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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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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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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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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