"When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him."
― Bayard Rustin
Topic(s):
Society
― Bayard Rustin
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- "I knew that I did not have to buy into society’s notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be happy. I was in charge of my “spaceship” and it was my up, my down. I could choose to see this situation as a setback or as a starting point. I chose to begin life again."― Warren Mitchell
- "‘Society’s Child’ was a real hard record to start with. That’s all you want is for you to put your first record out and have people screaming at you in the streets. But it taught me right away that what I was doing was valuable and important."― Janis Ian
- "We are all murderers and prostitutes – no matter to what culture, society, class, nation one belongs, no matter how normal, moral, or mature, one takes oneself to be."― R. D. Laing