"The only weapon we have is our bodies,……" — Bayard Rustin
"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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38 Quotes by Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin has 38 quotes on this site.
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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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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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You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
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More Bodies Quotes
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
— Aristotle
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
— Aristotle
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than…
— Richard Bach
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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
— Tyra Banks
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
— George Berkeley
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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
— Mortimer Adler
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
— Annie Besant
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell…
— Jim Bishop
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off…
— Erma Bombeck
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Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies.…
— Brandon Boyd
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