“Brotherhood” and resistance politics
Bayard T. Rustin’s Pragmatic Quaker Faith – by Carlos Figueroa
Rustin delivered the William Penn Lecture to the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of 1948. Rustin’s address and his thoughts on civil disobedience and moral imperatives are discussed in this essay by Dr. Figueroa.
FriendsJournal writes…
“Carlos Figueroa lives in Ithaca, N.Y. with his wife and daughter. This essay draws on two chapters on Rustin, forthcoming in The Quaker World (C. Wess Daniels and Rhiannon Grant, eds.). He works at Ithaca College and researches and teaches on race, religion, and class politics, the politics of U.S. Quakerism, and U.S.–Puerto Rico affairs.”