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Bayard Rustin

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American civil rights activist (1912–1987)

Person · Open Library

Born
1912
Died
1987
Works
19

Top works

  • Fear, frustration, backlash
  • "In apprehension how like a god!"
  • Time on Two Crosses
  • We the Resistance
  • The reminiscences of Bayard Rustin

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
104
Total plays
754

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Quotes

  • 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.
  • We in America reject planning except for the private sector of the economy, so what we have is democratic socialization for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.
  • We are all one, and if we don’t know it we will learn it the hard way.
  • For eight years I have believed war to be impractical and a denial of our Hebrew-Christian tradition. The social teachings of Jesus are: (1) respect for personality; (2) service the "sumumbonum"; (3) overcoming evil with good; and (4) the brotherhood of man. Those principles as I see it are violated by participation in war.
  • the basic spiritual truth that men are brothers in the sight of God
  • War is wrong. Conscription is a concomitant of modern war. Thus conscription for so vast an evil as war is wrong.

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