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It is always timely and virtuous to change-to take in all humility a new path.

— Bayard Rustin To Local Board No. 63 (1943)

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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.

That which separates man from his brother is evil and must be resisted.

To Local Board No. 63 (1943)

We in America reject planning except for the private sector of the economy, so what we have is democratic socialization for the rich and rugged individualism for the poor.

Segregation, separation, according to Jesus, is the basis of continuous violence.

To Local Board No. 63 (1943)

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

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