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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,

Bayard Rustin

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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Acknowledge Dignity Society
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
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
I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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Believe Creative Trouble
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
We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.
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Community Peace Ubuntu
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
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
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
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
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
There are three ways in which one can deal with an injustice. (a) One can accept it without protest. (b) On can seek to avoid it. (c) One can resist the injustice non-violently. To accept it is to perpetuate it.
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Accept Injustice Protest Seek Violent Way
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
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
You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
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Gay Rights Thinking
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

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