Bayard Rustin speaking to the crowd during the March on Washington, 28 August 1963.“Every indifferen
Bayard Rustin speaking to the crowd during the March on Washington, 28 August 1963.“Every indifference to prejudice is suicide because, if I don’t fight all bigotry, bigotry itself will be strengthened and, sooner or later, it will return on me.”From Protest to Politics: The Future of the Civil Rights Movement (February 1965):“At issue, after all, is not civil rights, strictly speaking, but social and economic conditions. Last summer’s riots (1964) were not race riots; they were outbursts of class aggression in a society where class and color definitions are converging disastrously.”“Moderates… apparently see nothing strange in the fact that in the last twenty-five years we have spent nearly a trillion dollars fighting or preparing for wars, yet throw up our hands before the need for overhauling our schools, clearing the slums, and really abolishing poverty. My quarrel with these moderates is that they do not even envision radical changes; their admonitions of moderation are, for all practical purposes, admonitions to the Negro to adjust to the status quo, and are therefore immoral.” -- source link
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