“We need, in every community, a group of angelic troublemakers. The only weapon we have is our bodies, and we need to tuck them in places so that wheels don’t turn.”
— Bayard Rustin, 1948
Quaker civil rights activist
Be an angelic troublemaker.
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Bayard Rustin (March 17, 1912 – August 24, 1987) was an American Quaker political activist, a prominent leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, nonviolence, and gay rights. Rustin was the principal organizer of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963.