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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.

Bayard Rustin

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.
BAYARD RUSTIN

Country Oneness Spring
Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
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Destroyed Enraged Injustice
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
The proof that one truly believes is in action.
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Action Believe Proof
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 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
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
We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.
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Community Peace Ubuntu
You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
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Gay Rights Thinking
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
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
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker upbringing and the values that were instilled in me by my grandparents who reared me.
BAYARD RUSTIN

Gay Grandparent Spring
I would say that the black newspapers have played it very straight. If I was attacked they simply published that I was attacked.
BAYARD RUSTIN

Attack Newspaper Play Publish Straight
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
You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
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Freedom Movement People

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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