Bayard Rustin Quotes

I am very quick to judge.

Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

Those we dislike can do nothing to please us.

If they're all so brilliant and I'm such an affirmative-action hire, how come they didn't catch me?

I've been a big admirer of Tony Dungy, and I'm sure a lot of people are, but he unfairly judged me, and that was disappointing to me.

I hate being judged.

When things are going well, they start saying you're the best, but as soon as things go wrong, suddenly you are the worst.

No matter what Jesus did, someone found fault with it.

Black detraction will find faults where they are not.

Whatever the lady does is wrong. I do not know of a single right decision taken by her.

Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads.

It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.

Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their absurdities than excellence ; and you cannot displease him more than in leaving him little room for his malice.

When I saw you fall..." "You thought, 'Wow, she's a loser.

What do I "think" of President Reagan? The best answer to give would be: I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think.

A cynic sees little to admire in the world, while the world sees even less to admire in him.

Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.

Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.

No matter what I say, honestly, people would only judge me the way they want to.

That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken.

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."