Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin (1910-1987) was an African US civil rights leader who organized 1953 Montgomery and Alabama bus boycott. He was also known for trade unionism activities.

Wisdom & Quotes

• There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

- From Protest to Politics

• When you're wrong, you're wrong. But when you're right, you're wrong anyhow.

- Down the Line

Millicent Fenwick