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“It is my sincere conviction that the power of love in the world is the greatest power existing. If you have a greater power, my friend, you may move me.”

Source: 'Nonviolence vs. Jim Crow', Fellowship (Fellowship of Reconciliation), July 1942 - Rustin's own account of what he said to the police

Context He had refused to move to the back of a segregated bus between Louisville and Nashville, was beaten by police, taken before a prosecutor in Nashville and released without charge.

Bayard RustinUnited States · 1912–1987

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