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Every gay who is in the closet is ultimately a threat to the freedom of gays. I don't want to seem intolerant to them and I think we have to say that to them with a great deal of affection, but remaining in the closet is the other side of the prejudice against gays. Because until you challenge it, you are not playing an active role in fighting it.

Bayard Rustin's Popular Quotes

We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers.

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The real radical is that person who has a vision of equality and is willing to do those things that will bring reality closer to that vision. . .

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There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also …

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

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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.

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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

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If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a s…

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If I do not fight bigotry wherever it is, bigotry is thereby strengthened. And to the degree that it is strengthened, it will, thereby, have the powe…

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God does not require us to achieve any of the good tasks that humanity must pursue. What God requires of us is that we not stop trying.

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