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"There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts."

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About Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin was an American civil rights activist and strategist who helped organize the 1963 March on Washington. He was also a prominent advocate of nonviolence, labor rights, and human rights.

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