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  • Bayard Rustin Quote - Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice. Download This Image
  • Bayard Rustin Quote - Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.
  • Bayard Rustin Quote - Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.
  • Bayard Rustin Quote - Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.
  • Bayard Rustin Quote - Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.
  • Bayard Rustin Quote - Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.
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Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end. Download This Image

    If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - 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.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don’t turn Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself.

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - My activism did not spring from being black…The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family. Download This Image

    My activism did not spring from being black…The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - 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, Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - 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. Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - 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. . . Download This Image

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice. Download This Image

    Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it. Download This Image

    Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.

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