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Bayard Rustin has 39 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• When I say I love Eastland, it sounds preposterous a man who brutalizes people. But you love him or you wouldn't be…
• The proof that one truly believes is in action.
• Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later,…
• The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so wheels don't turn
• Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of…
• My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge…
• Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the…
• Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The…
• Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
• If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If…
• I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
• We are all one - and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.

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