Civil Rights Quotes
Civil Rights Quote of the day
The time is always right to do the right thing.
We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.
I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.
Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.
How can you ask someone to live in the world and not have something to say about injustice?
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.
Justice is what love sounds like when it speaks in public.
A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.
Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character.
Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself.
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.
Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.
Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American Labor.
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.
Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.
Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.
Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history thats least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.
