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From Quotes by Bayard Rustin
- When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be here. You're going…
- 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 belief…
- Today, blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. Blacks are in every segment of society and there are laws…
- My activism did not spring from my being gay, or, for that matter, from my being black. Rather, it is rooted fundamentally in my Quaker…
- Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss…
- I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue,…
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