Civil rights Quotes · Page 5

As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual.

— Tucker Carlson

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

— Thomas Jefferson

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

— Gloria Allred

“How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker”

— Gail Collins

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

I believe in civil rights. Every man is born equal and should be treated as human.

— Peter Norman

[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them

— James Howe

Anarchy is a butterfly; refuse to be cocooned in darkness, evolve to something better.

— Jennifer Amorelli

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

— Ida B. Wells

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may…

— Thomas Jefferson

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have…

— Charlayne Hunter-Gault

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and…

— Elijah Cummings

“Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.”

— DaShanne Stokes

The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.

— Thomas Jefferson

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

— Maria Weston Chapman

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

— Clarence Thomas

Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the…

— Thomas Sowell

No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad…

— Thomas Jefferson

The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated…

— Thomas Sowell

When poor people get involved in a long conflict, such as a strike or a civil rights drive, and the pressure increases…

— Cesar Chavez

Historically, the court has been the forum to which individuals can turn when they believed their constitutional rights were violated. This has…

— Dianne Feinstein

The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great…

— Tom Brokaw

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious…

— Thomas Jefferson

It was we, the people; not we, the white male citizens; nor yet we, the male citizens; but we, the whole people,…

— Susan B. Anthony

“No individual or single organization can speak for nonwhite people, women, the world's colonized populations, workers, or any demographic category as a…

— Tipu's Tiger

Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and…

— Barack Obama

“Rakitin doesn't understand it, all he wants is to build his house and rent out rooms...Life is simple for Rakitin: 'You'd do…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats…

— Jonathan Michel Metzl

“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when…

— Yuri Bezmenov

There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a…

— Noam Chomsky

“A favorite liberal taunt is to accuse conservatives of clinging to an idealized past. Poor, right-wing Americans vaguely sense the world is…

— Ann Coulter

This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would…

— Strom Thurmond

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

— Joe Biden

Anarchy is a butterfly; to change, evolve from Darkness and open your wings.

— Jennifer Amorelli

When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

— Michael Savage

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

— Anonymous

I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

— Thurgood Marshall

The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.

— Adam Cohen

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

— Yolanda King

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

— Albert Camus