In speaking and working on behalf of freedom and justice both here and abroad. he warns us about totalitarianism and about the need for strength in opposition to it. He has been chairman of the Social Democrats U.S.A.. a fundamentally antitotalitarian. antiCommunist organization. He has long been a member of the board of directors of the International Rescue Committee which for 50 years has been giving succor to refugees from totalitarianism. whose numbers have at times been overwhelming in the last generation of MarxistLeninist totalitarianism. In his entry in Whos Who. he exercises that option. which the publisher evidently gives to persons. to say something about himself. And here is what Bayard Rustin writes of himself: The Principle factors which influenced my life are: (1) nonviolent tactics. (2) constitutional means. (3) democratic procedures (4) respect for human personality. (5) a belief that all people are one.
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