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Bayard Rustin Quotes

I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Man I Am War Prison Three Accept

Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Jennifer Hudson

School Famous Grammar Always Singer

You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity.

Creativity Creative Think You Might

I would do a sort of violence to myself if I didn't express myself in the directly creative ways of writing, both words and music.

Music Myself Words Creative Writing

I have so many great memories of the wrestling business. I've worked real hard to get to the top, and how many flukes and breaks to have happened that had allowed me to have the success that I did.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Success Business Memories Great Me

I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

Story Think Laugh You Kind Pay

I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish.

Time Doing Now Kind Irish Difficult

My heroes were always soccer players.

Soccer Always Heroes Players Were

I'm either mentally ill or Jewish. I can't sometimes tell the difference.

Sometimes Difference Jewish Tell Ill

I would like to be taller, thinner and more rakish looking.

Looking More Would Like Taller

I'm not an activist. I'm trying to get off the whole atheist racket.

Trying Atheist Get Whole Off Racket

Once I had a better beat, I needed to have an even better one. And somewhere in that climbing, I lost sight of, sort of, my moral and ethical underpinnings.

Better Lost Moral Sight Beat Even

I played Little League for one year. That was it. Then my mother realized I liked books and threatened my father. I owe her forever for that.

Father Mother Year Little Forever

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