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 …

- Bayard Rustin

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

- Bayard Rustin

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. . .

- Bayard Rustin

I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

- Bayard Rustin

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

- Bayard Rustin

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.

- Bayard Rustin

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…

- Bayard Rustin

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…

- Bayard Rustin

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.

- Bayard Rustin