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Bayard Rustin

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We need in every bay and community a group of angelic troublemakers.


— Bayard Rustin


#inspirational #making-a-difference-in-the-world #inspirational

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


#act #being #confers #dignity #him

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


— Bayard Rustin


#behave #true #truth #were






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In 1986 he gave a speech "The New Niggers Are Gays" in which he asserted

Today blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. The following year Rustin and King began organizing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Rustin had wanted to keep his participation quiet as he believed that his known sexual orientation would be used by critics as an excuse to compromise the 71-page pamphlet when it was publiBayard Rustind.

He was the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom which was headed by A. 's leadership and helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to strengthen King's leadership; Rustin promoted the philosophy of nonviolence and the practices of nonviolent resistance which he had observed while working with Gandhi's movement in India. Rustin became the head of the AFL–CIO's A.

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