Civil rights Quotes · Page 9

“If indeed there were a God, civil rights was surely his work.”

— Susan Eaton

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama.

— Margot Lee Shetterly

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

— Tina Brown

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.

— James Meredith

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

— Kenya Barris

By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.

— H. W. Brands

Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of…

— Norman Jewison

“In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a man's skin the criteria for granting him…

— Julius Nyerere

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we…

— George Clooney

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

They [the founders] proclaimed to all the world the revolutionary doctrine of the divine rights of the common man. That doctrine has…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.”

— DaShanne Stokes

Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it…

— Aisha Hinds

Bolivia was the first country to stop hyperinflation in a democracy without depriving people of their civil rights and without violating human…

— Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an…

— John Lewis

It's clear that the laws intended to allow victims to have their cases heard - including our civil rights laws, our criminal…

— Cal Cunningham

Every person with a pulse has a responsibility to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community that is on the front lines…

— Van Jones

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

— Rachel Griffiths

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Gerald Horne

Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected…

— Peter Kropotkin

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

“America is a leap of the imagination. From its beginning, people had only a persistent idea of what a good country should…

— Ian Frazier

Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther…

— Louis Menand

“These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by…

— William O. Douglas

“A college student who wants to file a complaint of sexual assault within the campus disciplinary system informs a university employee such…

— David E. Bernstein

I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to…

— Sara Paretsky

I think that it is true that Eleanor Roosevelt, by being so active on that front, contributed to that impression very substantially.…

— William A. Rusher

“Welch became more confident that the press was reporting his words more accurately, but that worked against him because his discourses on…

— Edward H. Miller

“Too few of us from the Black Power generation and the movements to take power in cities through the election of black…

— Junius Williams

“If you think human rights is a political matter, what you think does not matter.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

— Mary Frances Berry

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Too Short

There's a long bipartisan tradition of civil rights enforcement.

— Tom Perez

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

— Adam Lambert

Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.

— Joe R. Lansdale

The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.

— Jacqueline Woodson

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

— Cory Booker