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Quotes by Bayard Rustin

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When you’re wrong, you’re wrong. But when you’re right, you’re wrong anyhow.
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It occurred to me shortly after that that it was an absolute necessity for me to declare homosexuality, because if I didn’t I was a part of the prejudice. I was aiding and abetting the prejudice that was a part of the effort to destroy me.
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Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel’s existence.
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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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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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We are all one – and if we don’t know it, we will learn it the hard way.
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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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Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
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We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.
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The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .
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