Building Quote by Bayard Rustin

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

— Bayard Rustin

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

— Bayard Rustin

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

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

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

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

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

The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn

— Bayard Rustin

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

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

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

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

— Bayard Rustin