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  • Bayard Rustin Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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 Quote - 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.
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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

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    To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

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

    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.

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    The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

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

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

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

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

    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me. Download This Image

    Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.

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    The proof that one truly believes is in action.

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    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 - 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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    You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

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    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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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - I would say that the black newspapers have played it very straight. If I was attacked they simply published that I was attacked. Download This Image

    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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    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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    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 - When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn’t be here. You’re going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children. Download This Image

    When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn’t be here. You’re going to Mississippi to create social change and you love Eastland in your desire to create conditions which will redeem his children.

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  • Share on Facebook Tweet this! Share on LinkedIn Share on Whatsapp Share on Telegram Bayard Rustin Quote - I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war. Download This Image

    I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

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    Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.

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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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    I believe there are certain types of movements which cannot be married.

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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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    If people do not organize in the name of their interest, the world will not take them as being serious. And that is the chief reason that every person who is gay should join some gay organization. Because he must prove to the world that he cares about his own freedom.

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

    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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