Bayard Rustin

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble. ”

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

I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war. ”

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. ”

I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon. ”