english: In 2013, fifty years after the March On Washington, President Barack Obama posthumously  awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, praising Rustin’s  “march towards true equality, no matter who we are  or who we love.”
non_english: Godine 2013, 50 godina nakon Marša na Vašington, predsednik Barak Obama mu je posthumno dodelio predsedničku medalju slobode, uz pohvalu Rastinovom „maršu ka istinskoj jednakosti, bez obzira na to ko smo ili koga volimo.“