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The only way to reduce ugliness in the world is to reduce it in yourself

~ Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin Discipleship Self Criticism

You have to join every other movement for the freedom of people.

~ Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin Civil Rights Human Rights Lgbt

War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed.

~ Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin Freedom Truth Believe

I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.

~ Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin Man I Am Prison

I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

~ Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin Progress I Am World

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

~ Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin True Afraid Behave

The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow in travel, but also as a training ground for similar peaceful projects against discrimination in such major areas as employment and in the armed services.

~ Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin Journey Training Peaceful

The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

~ Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin Future Character People

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FEPC and the right to vote.

~ Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin School Vote Compromise

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.

~ Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin Society Democracy Violence

If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.

~ Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin Freedom Society Goal

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.

~ Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin Dignity Human Protest
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