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.

Bayard Rustin

• War
• Prison
• Killing
• Quaker
• Religiously
• Conscientiously

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  Bayard Rustin
  • War
  • Prison
  • Killing