Civil Right Quotes
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Civil Right Quotes & Sayings
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With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.
— Abraham Lincoln
Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.
— John Quincy Adams
Health is a human necessity; health is a human right
— James Lenhart
Obama behaves like a centrist who leans tentatively left on certain social programs but boldly right on military force and civil liberties.
— David K. Shipler
I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.
— Allan Dare Pearce
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
— Thomas Jefferson
One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended.
— Abraham Lincoln
Sex as you like it is an animal right -- no mere civil liberty. Defend it with your beak and claw.
— Irving Rosenthal
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
— Roger Sherman
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
— Barack Obama
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
— Dionne Warwick
We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.
— W. Reece Smith Jr.
We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.
— Walter Lippmann
Every man has a right to be equal with every other man.
— Abraham Lincoln
It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.
— Annie Laurie Gaylor
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
— Thomas Jefferson
Gay rights to me that is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous embarrassment.
— Jodi Picoult
Right isn't always legal.
— J.S.B. Morse
Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.
— Herb Ritts
What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a civil right.
— Elizabeth Holmes
Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.
— Margaret McMullan
Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Democracy is disruptive ... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.
— Naomi Wolf
Voting for the right is doing nothing for it.
— Henry David Thoreau
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the left.
— William O. Douglas
I believe health care is a civil right.
— Dennis Kucinich
Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association.
— Mahatma Gandhi
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
— Tammy Bruce
The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.
— Eric Schneiderman
Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.
— Harry S. Truman
Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued existence.
— Dennis Kucinich
That one generation of men in civil society have no right to make acts to bind another, is a truth that cannot be confused.
— Thomas Jefferson
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
— Russell Simmons
They're right. We're not fighting for the people anymore, Falcon... Look at us. We're just fighting.
— Mike Millar
It will be all right if it turns out all right.
— Ulysses S. Grant
The majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress the former.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Individual civil disobedience was everybody's inherent right, like the right of self-defence in normal life.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.
— Mahatma Gandhi