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"When an individual is protesting societys refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him."
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Bayard RustinThat which separates man from his brother is evil and must be resisted — Bayard Rustin
"That which separates man from his brother is evil and must be resisted."
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Bayard Rustin
Bayard Rustin
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Bayard Rustin was an American political activist and prominent leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin was the principal organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.
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"the basic spiritual truth that men are brothers in the sight of God"
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"We are all one, and if we don’t know it we will learn it the hard way."
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"Conscription for war is inconsistent with freedom of conscience, which is not merely the right to believe, but to act on the degree of truth that one receives, to follow a vocation which is God-inspired and God-directed."
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"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."
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"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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