Bayard Rustin Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: leader
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 17, 1912 - August 24, 1987

Topics

KingMeHimBecauseWorkingWhom

Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots.

Smokey Robinson

LifeRootsMy LifeWillAlwaysPart

Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God's law.

Mary Manin Morrissey

WorkLoveGodLawYouLetting Go

If everything else falls apart and I'm broke, in 20 years I'll still be able to do 'Twin Peaks' conventions.

Miguel Ferrer

YearsEverythingAbleStillBroke

Armaments are necessary - or are maintained on the pretext of necessity - because of a real or an imagined danger of war.

Ludwig Quidde

WarRealDangerNecessityBecause

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.

Judy Biggert

NameTalkingSecurityTrueFirst

Meditation is the practice of giving something your full attention and awareness. When I eat a truffle, for example, I focus fully on it and involve as many of my senses as possible.

Dean Ornish

FocusPracticeGivingAttentionEat

There's something about that blind trust between Timbaland and me - two people that have almost nothing in common except for a love of music - that is really rejuvenating.

Chris Cornell

LoveMusicTrustPeopleMeBlind

I enjoy my money, and I'm not ashamed to admit it. I'd certainly rather be rich than poor.

Christine McVie

MoneyRichEnjoyAdmitPoorAshamed

If you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do no more.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

FocusYouDownLostRockWill

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

William Temple

AloneBestManValueOpinionsRules

I believe that love between people is the greatest life-giving force in the world. It's intensely frustrating and inevitably makes a fool of you, but you can't stop going back to it, and it's pretty much the defining experience of a human being.

Sebastian Faulks

LoveExperienceFoolPeopleWorld

If you don't drink, smoke, or drive a car, you're a tax evader.

Thomas S. Foley

CarDriveYouSmokeTaxDrink

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