Bayard Rustin Quotes

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

I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been ag...

The Journey of Reconciliation was organized not only to devise techniques for eliminating Jim Crow i...

The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics 2) constitutional means 3) ...

If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desir...

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

War is wrong. Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely t...

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

We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we hav...

If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherh...

The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider...

I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negro...

When an individual is protesting society's refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his ...