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Bayard Rustin foi um activista pelos direitos civis dos Afro-Americanos, sobretudo pelo seu papel de organizador da Marcha sobre Washington pelo Trabalho e pela Liberdade, em 1963. Foi conselheiro de Martin Luther King sobre resistência civil não-violenta. Rustin era abertamente gay[1] e, na parte final da sua carreira, defendeu causas gay e lésbicas. Pouco antes da sua morte, em 1987, Rustin disse: "O barómetro da nossa posição sobre a questão dos direitos humanos já não reside na comunidade negra, mas na comunidade gay. Porque é esta comunidade que é mais facilmente maltratada." Wikipedia  

✵ 17. Março 1912 – 24. Agosto 1987
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“I think the movement contributed to this nation a sense of universal freedom. Precisely because women saw our movement in the sixties, stimulated them to want their rights. The fact that students saw the movement of the sixties created a student movement in this country. The fact that the people were against the war in Vietnam, saw us go into the street and win, made it possible for them to have the courage to go into the street and win, and the lesson that I would like to see from this is, that we must now find a way to deal with the problem of full employment, and as surely as we were able to bring about the Civil Rights Act, the voter rights act--the Voting Rights Act, I mean the education act, and the housing act, so is it possible for all of us now to combine our forces in a coalition, including Catholic, Protestant, Jew and labor and blacks and Puerto Ricans and Mexican-Americans and all other minorities, to bring about the one thing that will bring peace internally to the United States. And that is that any man who wants a job, or any woman who wants a job, shall not be left unemployed.”

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Eyes on the Prize interview http://digital.wustl.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=eop;cc=eop;rgn=main;view=text;idno=rus0015.0145.091, Interview with Bayard Rustin, conducted by Blackside, Inc. in 1979, for Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years (1954-1965). Washington University Libraries, Film and Media Archive, Henry Hampton Collection. (1979)

“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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The Mirage of Dignity on the Highways of Human 'progress': - the bystanders' perspective - , by Lukman Harees, p xv, 2012.

“We are all one, and if we don’t know it we will learn it the hard way.”

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Fonte: Rustin at a gay rights rally shortly before his death, quoted in "Bayard Rustin: Struggling for civil and human rights for all people" https://www.afsc.org/story/bayard-rustin by Walter Naegle