Civil Right Quotes · Page 4

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

— Kate Thompson

After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.

— Michelle Alexander

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

— Allen West

With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.

— Edison Haines

Put my fist in her like a civil rights sign.

— Kanye West

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

— Eldridge Cleaver

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

— Arne Duncan

Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement…

— Brandon Victor Dixon

Homosexuality is not about love, it's not about family, and it's not about civil rights.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

— Nick Nolte

The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

— Ezra Taft Benson

The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!"

— Michael R. Burch

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

— Henry Rollins

Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?

— Russell Simmons

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger…

— Jack Nicholson

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of…

— Carol Moseley Braun

Civil rights for all Americans, black, white, red, yellow, the rich, poor, young, old, gay, straight, et cetera, is not a liberal…

— Jerry Falwell

The problem that we face as civil rights lawyers and advocates is that its extremely difficult to prove race discrimination because the…

— Michelle Alexander

In 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after hearings exposed the F.B.I.'s egregious practice of illegally spying on civil rights…

— Asha Rangappa

We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker…

— David Oyelowo

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white…

— Maggie Gallagher

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of…

— David Cameron

You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us.…

— Geoffrey Canada

Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we…

— Patricia J. Williams

This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King…

— Sara Paretsky

The simple truth is that there isn't a single civil right I would deny to an evangelical Christian. I've defended their freedom…

— Andrew Sullivan

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

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

— Thomas Jefferson

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

— Glenn Beck

“widespread. Some states go so far as to forcibly sterilize people with certain disabilities. Some prohibit marriage for the genetically disabled, for…

— Ben Mattlin

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 we begin to get in this area, we need new friends, we need new allies. We need to expand the civil-rights…

— Joy James

“It was the uniform of a time and place, of a nearly extinct species—the belligerent middle-American redneck who had fought in Korea,…

— Matthew Louis

“The revolution had come too late for him. He was in his midforties when the Civil Rights Act was signed and close…

— Isabel Wilkerson

“For more than a hundred years the Republic of South Africa had been the center of racial strife. Men of good will…

— Arthur C. Clarke

“While the Reconstruction Era was fraught with corruption and arguably doomed by the lack of land reform, the sweeping economic and political…

— Michelle Alexander

“First, That every civil right grows out of a natural right; or, in other words, is a natural right exchanged. Secondly, That…

— Thomas Paine

“Naturalization, on the other hand, also proved to be a failure. The whole naturalization system of European countries fell apart when it…

— Hannah Arendt

“Jimmy likely wrote all three editorials, and one, titled “Who Is for Law and Order?” carried his byline. He argued that the…

— Stephen M. Ward