| Bayard Rustin Quotes |
 Bayard Rustin Quotes
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Jan. 22nd, 2008 @ 08:41 pm 
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In one of his own Rosa Parks moments: “I cannot move.” The police came, and they started dragging Bayard out of his seat. And he pointed to a little white child across the aisle saying, “If I move, this child will not know that injustice is taking place here.”
“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.”
“To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.”
“Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live”
In between class and stuff this morning i looked some of these up. This next one is dedicated to  bananaboy82
“The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.”
"My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my belief in the oneness of the human family." - Bayard Rustin
Firece! –
"I have repeatedly been asked where I stand on the war in Vietnam by former civil rights activists who devote nearly all their energies to opposing the war. They want to know why I don’t do likewise. Unlike many of them, I do not believe that the civil rights movement is dead, so I’m not ready to help bury it. To those who have urged me to switch from civil rights to peace, let me say, someday, God help us, this war will be over, and my job is to help see to it when black soldiers come home, they will have something decent to come home to. " |
Thank you for this, Sammy. I really needed a radical pick-me up, especially considering some of the fucked up things I've had to deal with the past couple of days.
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November 26th, 2008 12:34 am (UTC) |
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What is the source for the the "My activisim did not spring..." comment?
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