12700303, ! Posted by Ted Gee Seal, Thu Jan-15-15 09:38 PM
>Bayard Rustin, a gay man who was an American leader in social >movements for civil rights, socialism, pacifism and >non-violence, and gay rights, took leave from the War >Resisters League in 1956 to advise Martin Luther King Jr. on >Gandhian tactics. King was organizing the public >transportation boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, known as the >Montgomery Bus Boycott. According to Rustin, "I think it's >fair to say that Dr. King's view of non-violent tactics was >almost non-existent when the boycott began. In other words, >Dr. King was permitting himself and his children and his home >to be protected by guns." > >~ ~ ~ >All meetings end in separation >All acquisition ends in dispersion >All life ends in death >- The Buddha > >|\_/| >='_'= > >Every hundred years, all new people
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