Bayard Rustin

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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