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Read through the most famous quotes from Bayard Rustin
We need in every bay and community a group of angelic troublemakers. ↗
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In 1986 he gave a speech "The New Niggers Are Gays" in which he asserted
Today blacks are no longer the litmus paper or the barometer of social change. The following year Rustin and King began organizing the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). Rustin had wanted to keep his participation quiet as he believed that his known sexual orientation would be used by critics as an excuse to compromise the 71-page pamphlet when it was publiBayard Rustind.
He was the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom which was headed by A. 's leadership and helped to organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to strengthen King's leadership; Rustin promoted the philosophy of nonviolence and the practices of nonviolent resistance which he had observed while working with Gandhi's movement in India. Rustin became the head of the AFL–CIO's A.
