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"I Have a Dream"

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    • Thu, 08/28/2008 - 3:13pm — amberglow

    45 years ago today, in Washington, DC -- I have a dream

    for Bayard Rustin -- and all the rest of us who remain "Brother -and Sister- Outsiders" -- who still don't have the opportunities, equality, and rights that others have -- and that we all deserve.

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    video

    By DCblogger on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 3:35pm

    video of speech

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    thks

    By amberglow on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 4:14pm

    (i should have remembered about the video) : >

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    Bayard Rustin

    By gob on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 6:27pm

    - one of my parents' heroes (probably through the AFSC connection), a very cool guy, a name that still resonates for me, heard too seldom...and I had no idea he was gay until much later (my life being spent very much in the heterocentric bubble).

    Policy not party!

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    Policy not party!

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    he totally rocks--behind every event and famous

    By amberglow on Thu, 08/28/2008 - 7:21pm

    occasion, there are people like Bayard (and Hillary, and Eleanor Roosevelt, etc, too).

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