Black Rights Quotes: top 32 famous quotes about Black Rights

Black Rights Quotes & Sayings

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In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus. — Timothy B. Tyson

I'm hurting because the color of my skin makes me perfect for their target practice. — R H Sin

Obviously I'm in favor of protecting the rights of everybody: gay, black, women, what have you, American Indians. — Gore Vidal

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. — Johnny Carson

Senator John Stennis:
The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man ... It freed my soul. — Joe Biden

Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings. — Ari Shapiro

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story. — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression. — Gary Clark Jr.

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination. — John Lewis

Make your vacation your vocation. — Mark Twain

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era. — Wesley Morris

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets. — Hoyt W. Fuller

I think I feel the most comfortable being insane. — Shannon Leto

Black power showed up in different ways, depending on the goals of the group. — Junius Williams

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. — Stokely Carmichael

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived. — Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Where does a black soul go to rest? — Randall Robinson

We wanted black power to be all things to all people. — Cleveland Sellers

This is the time for black people to stand and be counted. — Allan Dare Pearce

every time this happens
I see my father
my brother
my would be son
I see myself
stop killing us — R H Sin

Black-on-black crime is a massive human rights issue that's going on in America. — Ryan Coogler

Grace is available to us from God, but it is located in our place of work — Sunday Adelaja

We must always embrace individual liberty and enforce the constitutional rights of all Americans-rich and poor, immigrant and native, black and white. — Rand Paul

Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist. — Edward Abbey

And I look at him.
Really, truly, look at him.
And I fall in love all over again. — Jay McLean

How is the black man going to get 'civil rights' before he first wins his human rights? — Malcolm X

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women. — Karen DeCrow

What you bring along says as much about you as what you leave behind. — Jacquelyn Middleton

Reading the books, I've always loved reading. It was easier than talking. Like a child playing games. — Elise Kova

An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment. — Hugo Black

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere. — Allan Dare Pearce

Later that year, the Voting Rights Act opened the door for thousands to register for the first time. — Junius Williams