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Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I think the gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight.

Bayard Rustin

The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don’t turn
BAYARD RUSTIN

Body Needs Weapon
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
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
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
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
You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
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Freedom Movement People
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
Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel’s existence.
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Country Democracy Support
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
Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it.
BAYARD RUSTIN

Believe Political Three
Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
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Destroyed Enraged Injustice
Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws that help to protect them from racial discrimination.
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Gay Law People
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.
BAYARD RUSTIN

Birth Mind Place Plot
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.
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Gay Grandparent Spring
When you’re wrong, you’re wrong. But when you’re right, you’re wrong anyhow.
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Anyhow Racism Right Wrong
Every gay who is in the closet is ultimately a threat to the freedom of gays.
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Fighting Gay Thinking

Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I think the gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight.

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Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will help you. I think the gay community has a moral obligation to continue the fight.

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