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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.

Bayard Rustin

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.
BAYARD RUSTIN

Degree Fighting Turn
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
Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
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Destroyed Enraged Injustice
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
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
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
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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Body Needs Weapon
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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Country Oneness Spring
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
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
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 believe there are certain types of movements which cannot be married.
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Believe Married Movement
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.
BAYARD RUSTIN

Conflict Law States
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
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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Fighting Gay Thinking
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

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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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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