Today we salute one of the great leaders of the civil rights movement, a fabulous gay black man named Byard Rustin, the chief organizer of the famous 1963 March on Washington for Jobs

and Freedom, the march that defined activism for this generation and others to come.

Sadly, Rustin is largely ignored in the history of equality in this country because of his

sexuality. So let's remember the importance of his influence on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

And his desire for nonviolent protest.

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And this is Feast of Fun.

There's a debate over civil rights when people are tempted to make a comparison between identities.

Who has it worse? Men, women, blacks, Asians, gay, straights, transgendered, rich people, poor people,

working class, suburbanites, urban dwellers. The fight for civil rights is the fight for everyone

to be able to have a voice. The fight for everyone to be able to participate, to have liberty,

and to have the access to the institutions that shape their everyday lives. And so when we're fighting for equal rights,

wherever you are and whoever you may be, it's really important to look at certain individuals

who set the tone for this country, who laid a foundation of what it means to be equal,

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