"The proof that one truly believes is in…" — Bayard Rustin
"The proof that one truly believes is in action."
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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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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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You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
— Hannah Arendt
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then…
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless.
— Hannah Arendt
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate…
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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole…
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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
— Aristotle
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We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
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