Quotes by Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin

Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

Birth Place

Mind

Plot

Both morally and practically, segregation is to me a basic injustice. Since I believe it to be so, I must attempt to remove it. There are three ways in which one can deal with an injustice. (a) One can accept it without protest. (b) On can seek to avoid it. (c) One can resist the injustice non-violently. To accept it is to perpetuate it.

Believe

Political

Three

Every gay who is in the closet is ultimately a threat to the freedom of gays. I don’t want to seem intolerant to them and I think we have to say that to them with a great deal of affection, but remaining in the closet is the other side of the prejudice against gays. Because until you challenge it, you are not playing an active role in fighting it.

Fighting

Gay

Thinking

God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

Humanity

Peace

Ubuntu

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, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

Issues

Military

War

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

Believe

Creative

Trouble

I believe there are certain types of movements which cannot be married.

Believe

Married

Movement

If anyone thinks they’re going to get anything out of the Reagan administration for any particular group, they’re wrong! You have to all combine and fight a head-on battle – in the name of justice and equality – and even that’s going to be difficult. But if we let ourselves get separated so that we’re working for gays or school children or the aged, we’re in trouble.

Children

Fighting

School

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

Degrees

Fighting

Turns

If people do not organize in the name of their interest, the world will not take them as being serious. And that is the chief reason that every person who is gay should join some gay organization. Because he must prove to the world that he cares about his own freedom.

Gay

Names

Organization

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Careers

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Creative

Crow

Degrees

Destroyed

Dignity

Enemy

Fighting

Firsts

Gay

Goal

Grandparent

Humanity

Injustice

Inspirational Love

Issues

Journey

Law

Looks

Married

Mean

Men

Military

Mind

Movement

Names

Oneness

Organization

Peace

Peaceful

People

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Quotes by Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin

Bigotrys birthplace is the sinister back room of the mind where plots and schemes are hatched for the persecution and oppression of other human beings.

God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

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, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

I believe there are certain types of movements which cannot be married.

If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the power to turn on me.

If people do not organize in the name of their interest, the world will not take them as being serious. And that is the chief reason that every person who is gay should join some gay organization. Because he must prove to the world that he cares about his own freedom.

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