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Bayard Rustin

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
People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.
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Fighting Given People
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
Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
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Destroyed Enraged Injustice
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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Men War Years
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
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
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
I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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Believe Creative Trouble
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
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 am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.
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Issues Military War
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
Conscription 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.
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Believe Degrees War
The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.
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Crow Journey Peaceful
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

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