If I cannot be myself in the movement, I am not interested i... - Bayard Rustin

"If I cannot be myself in the movement, I am not interested in being in the movement."

Bayard Rustin

Civil Rights Organizer, LGBTQ+ Pioneer American 1912–1987

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