Bernard Lafayette Quotes
We must learn to live together as brothers or we will live separately as fools.
Bernard Lafayette, Baptist Minister, Co-founder, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Civil Rights Leader & Member of the International Nonviolence Executive Planning Board, Interview, CNN News, March 7, 2005
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When the left in Spain began calling for a workers revolution, the right and the clerics called for “peace and harmony.”
Toleration of diversity of all kinds is a major tenet of the Bahai faith. As it is a relatively new religion its founder and early leaders had observed the history of religious, ethnic and ideological intolerance in the world and were determined to try and stop it. The Bahai for example are one of the few religions who do not discourage religious intermarriage and they encourage racial intermarriage.
Bernard Lafayette (or LaFayette), Jr. is an American civil rights activist and organizer, who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He played a leading role in early organizing of the Selma Voting Rights Movement; was a member of the Nashville Student Movement; and worked closely throughout the 1960s movements with groups such as the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and the American Friends Service Committee.
