"When an individual is protesting society's refusal to……" — Bayard Rustin
"When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him."
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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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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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