Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice. — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
If we want to do away with the injustice to gays it will not be done because we get rid of the… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
I would say except when I have been attacked the black community has seldom seen fit to even mention the gay aspect.… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
If people do not organize in the name of their interest, the world will not take them as being serious. And that… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Gays are beginning to realize what blacks learned long ago: Unless you are out here fighting for yourself then nobody else will… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Every gay who is in the closet is ultimately a threat to the freedom of gays. I don't want to seem intolerant… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people. Therefore join the movement as individuals against anti-Semitism, join the… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
If anyone thinks they're going to get anything out of the Reagan administration for any particular group, they're wrong! You have to… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice. — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow. — Bayard Rustin Copy Share 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… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share 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… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share 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… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share 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… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way. — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
