Civil Right Quotes · Page 6

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the…

— Bill Ayers

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

— Thomas Jefferson

Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.

— Anonymous

Civil rights for Blacks, and gay rights for gays are two different things.

— Vernon Jones

I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders.

— Malcolm X

In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.

— James Madison

LGBTQ Americans deserve a president who will always stand with them and protect their civil rights - without hesitation.

— Kirsten Gillibrand

It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.

— London Breed

I do not want to deny anyone their livelihood or civil rights. Who wants to discriminate against anybody... But when it comes…

— Anita Bryant

I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be…

— Billie Joe Armstrong

It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I…

— James Meredith

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have…

— Andrew Aydin

We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling…

— Rachel Griffiths

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into…

— Henry Rollins

It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction…

— Gerald Horne

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s,…

— Pauley Perrette

Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every…

— Thomas Jefferson

With all respect to Congressman Lewis, when I think about him, I always have that image in my mind when he was…

— Angela Stanton-King

I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we…

— John Henrik Clarke

The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line…

— Julian Castro

When I speak to students about the Civil Rights Movement, I say that it is impossible to stop a determined movement that…

— John Lewis

“My civil rights will not be trampled, and I say this not for me but for my children, and all those who…

— Glenn Beck

If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain…

— Denis Leary

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an…

— Glenn Beck

“I have lived and worked in the Washington, D. C., metropolitan area for almost four decades. During this period I have watched…

— Edwin H. Friedman

We probably have, right now, after the Civil Rights movement - and this was very unfortunate - the most glaring time of…

— John Henrik Clarke

“I argue that synagogue leaders have it backwards. Engaging individuals is what will lead them to affiliate with a synagogue as the…

— Kerry M. Olitzky

“Even with a Democratic president behind the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a far larger percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for…

— Ann Coulter

“They listened to a series of speeches by civil rights luminaries, capped off by a rousing, crowd-pleasing address by Martin Luther King.…

— Stephen M. Ward

“I think Republicans should fight for the black vote and blacks should fight for a place in the Republican Party, just as…

— Bruce Bartlett

I was morose that the Era of Barack Obama has returned us to a period where everything is racist, everyone is walking…

— Ann Coulter

“The civil rights revolution provoked new declarations of ethnic identity by the now long-resident "new migration" from southern and eastern Europe--Italians, Greeks,…

— Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr

Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.

— Thomas Perez

I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.

— Gary Johnson

Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

— John Lewis

[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero.

— Jason Chaffetz

Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.

— Russell Simmons

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

— Mitch Kapor

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

— Andrew Young