People will never fight for your freedom if you have not given evidence that you are prepared to fight for it yourself. — 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
The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality;… — 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
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
When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Looking back at his career, Mr. Rustin, a Quaker, once wrote: ‘The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics;… — 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
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
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
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
