Sit in the Back

"You ride in back."

I said, "My friend, I believe that is an unjust law. If I were to sit in back I would be condoning injustice."

"Get up, you...!!!"

I said quietly, "If I sit in the back of the bus I am depriving that child -" I pointed to a little white child of five or six- "of the knowledge that there is injustice here, which I believe it is his right to know. It is my sincere conviction that the power of love in the world is the greatest power existing. If you have greater power, my friend, you may move me."

-Rustin Bayard