"I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows,……" — Bayard Rustin
"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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Bayard Rustin
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38 Quotes by Bayard Rustin
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When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you…
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The proof that one truly believes is in action.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act…
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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…
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Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
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If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this…
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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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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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
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