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Bayard Rustin

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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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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Gay Taken Thinking
Every gay who is in the closet is ultimately a threat to the freedom of gays.
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Fighting Gay Thinking
You have to all combine and fight a head-on battle – in the name of justice and equality – and even that’s going to be difficult. But if we let ourselves get separated so that we’re working for gays or school children or the aged, we’re in trouble.
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Combine Difficult Fight Justice Name Ourselves Separate
To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.
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Afraid Behave Truth
I believe there are certain types of movements which cannot be married.
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Believe Married Movement
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
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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Degree Fighting Turn
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

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