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“We are all one, and if we don’t know it we will learn it the hard way.
— Bayard Rustin
Civil rights activist
Rustin at a gay rights rally shortly before his death, quoted in "Bayard Rustin: Struggling for civil and human rights for all people" by Walter Naegle
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