Bayard Rustin’s Death – Cause and Date

The civil rights leader Bayard Rustin died at the age of 75. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Civil Rights Leader and pacifist who was the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

He had a ten-year relationship with Walter Naegle until his death in 1987.

Quotes

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“If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.” (Bayard Rustin)

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“To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.” (Bayard Rustin)

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“The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.” (Bayard Rustin)

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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.” (Bayard Rustin)

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“Martin Luther King, with whom I worked very closely, became very distressed when a number of the ministers working for him wanted him to dismiss me from his staff because of my homosexuality.” (Bayard Rustin)