Civil Rights Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Civil Rights
Civil Rights Quotes & Sayings
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If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg.
— Victoria Gray Adams
I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
— Danny Glover
My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.
— Nicholas Kristof
We wouldn't have to take your rights away if you'd just stop exercising them.
— Carl-John X. Veraja
If not us, then who?If not now, then when? — John E. Lewis
Health is a human necessity; health is a human right
— James Lenhart
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
— Jesse Jackson
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The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.
— Thomas Jefferson
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
— Thomas Jefferson
As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
— Cornel West
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
— Andrew Cuomo
A voteless people is a hopeless people.
— Amelia Boynton Robinson
The Purpose of life is to thrive and save lives with passion! Save Yazidis today with love and compassion!
— Widad Akreyi
There is no noise as powerful as the sound of the marching feet of a determined people.
— Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project
God bless mood equalizers. and all moods are created equal. i am the fucking civil rights movement of moods
— John Green
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
— Ronald Reagan
Meaningful progress toward social justice cannot be made in sclerotic education systems that put adults' job security before children's civil rights.
— Arthur C. Brooks
Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free-and we're not. Guess who's winning the war on terror?
— Cory Doctorow
I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.
— Thomas Perez
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
A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.
— Chuck Palahniuk
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
— Mercedes Lackey
The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.
— Tom Cardamone
We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he pleases.
— Adolf Hitler
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
— Russell Simmons
I think I came here as a priest ... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must be eliminated.
— Samuel Bowers
We resign to civil society our natural rights of self-defence only on condition that the ordinances of law should protect us.
— Walter Scott
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
— James Meredith
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
— Andrew Young
The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
— Marvin Ammori
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.
— Robert Dallek
Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.
— Aniruddha Sastikar
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.
— Mary Frances Berry
As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.
— Charlayne Hunter-Gault
She was a civil rights advocate. He was a feminist.
— Gloria Steinem
I WILL FOLLOW ANYONEAND THANK EVERYONE
WHO TRIES TO MAKE
A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES
OF VULNERABLE CIVILIANS — Widad Akreyi
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.
— George Takei
If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.
— Jack Nicholson
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
— Jennifer Chiaverini
Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.
— Martin O'Malley
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized.
— Sheryl Sandberg
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface hidden tension that is already alive
— Martin Luther King Jr.
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.
— Ruben Santiago-Hudson
A freedom given up is not so easily regained.
— Rivera Sun
Being able to laugh got me through.
— Toni Morrison
No ONE MENTIONS YOUR TEARS, SADNESS OR SLOW DEATH! BUT, WE FEEL YOUR FALLEN TEARS, YOUR BEHEADED BODIES, YOUR RAPED DIGNITY!
— Widad Akreyi
I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.
— Amelia Boynton Robinson
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.
— Thomas Jefferson
Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.
— Frank Lautenberg
ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.
— Newt Gingrich
We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.
— William Graham Sumner
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
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
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights ... it had to be some silly little Communist.
— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
German Emancipation Edict of 1822 guaranteed Jews in Germany all civil rights enjoyed by Germans.
— Anonymous
You can't put civil rights on the ballot.
— Jesse Ventura
You can never know where you are going unless you know where you have been.
— Amelia Boynton Robinson
Friendship has no civil, and few emotional, rights in our society.
— Christina Baldwin
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[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them
— James Howe
Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.
— Augusta Scattergood
Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.
— DaShanne Stokes
The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
We wanted black power to be all things to all people.
— Cleveland Sellers
Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.
— Harry S. Truman
I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.
— Bernie Sanders
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
— Marianne Williamson
But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.
— Anne Moody
The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.
— Eric Schneiderman
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
— Bryan Cranston
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
— Morgan Freeman
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
— Alfred Marshall
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men wouldmake the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
rights. — Julius Nyerere
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
— Tammy Bruce
