Homosexuality Quotes by Bayard Rustin

9 Homosexuality quotes by Bayard Rustin

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Bayard Rustin’s nine brief remarks on homosexuality blend his civil‑rights activism with personal insight. The collection, though small, captures the principled stance that defined his lifelong work for justice.

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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…

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Black gay activists should try to build coalitions of people for the elimination of all injustice.

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The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The…

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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…

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If we want to do away with the injustice to gays it will not be done because we get rid of the…

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Every gay who is in the closet is ultimately a threat to the freedom of gays. I don't want to seem intolerant…

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Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The…

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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…

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If anyone thinks they're going to get anything out of the Reagan administration for any particular group, they're wrong! You have to…

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When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

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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…

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I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that…

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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…

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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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Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human…

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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…

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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such…

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We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

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

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Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional…

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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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