Civil rights Quotes

“As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.”

— Anthony Liccione

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Danny Glover

“If not now, then when?”

— Anonymous

Put my fist in her like a civil rights sign.

— Kanye West

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

— James L. Farmer, Jr

I would not open windows into men's souls.

— Elizabeth I

What are you doing for others?

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Danny Glover

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

— Chuck Palahniuk

We have to "walk the walk" not just "talk the talk".

— Paul Kivel

We wanted black power to be all things to all people.

— Cleveland Sellers

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

— Gary Clark, Jr

We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

— Edmund Burke

Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

— Arne Duncan

Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

— Michelle Obama

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

— Thomas Jefferson

I grew up in Illinois in an environment where my parents were very politically active in the civil rights movement.

— Lucy McBath

“Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.”

— DaShanne Stokes

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

— Marianne Williamson

My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me…

— Kenya Barris

As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it.

— Wayne LaPierre

As I grew up, I watched and learned about women who fought for voting rights, civil rights and reproductive freedom among others.

— Laphonza Butler

We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

“Civil rights is just one battlefield in the real war of the left, which is the war against America itself. The big…

— David Horowitz

In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do…

— Colson Whitehead

If the opportunity comes along to do a piece that has absolutely nothing to do with my gender or my race, and…

— Naomi Ackie

“The only marches I have ever witnessed under a banner of so-called "Christianity" have been to enforce oppression and incite hatred and…

— Christina Engela

The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a…

— Vint Cerf

The day when the Jew was first admitted to civil rights, the Christian state was in danger...the entrance of the Jew into…

— Bernard Lazare

“But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents…

— Junius Williams

Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a…

— Jesse Tyler Ferguson

Jim Jones started out as a civil rights crusader in Indianapolis. As a young preacher in the mid-50s, he used members of…

— Julia Scheeres

Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to…

— Sarah Schulman

“The belief in the power of "institutional racism" allows black civil rights leaders to denounce America as a "racist" society, when it…

— David Horowitz

As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... I am the hopeful black woman who was…

— Common

“On February 7, President Johnson met at the White House with five black leaders, including Frederick Douglass, who came to lobby for…

— Ron Chernow

Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we…

— Harry Belafonte

We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have…

— Chuck Woolery

I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle…

— Alexis de Tocqueville