No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration! — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. — James L. Farmer, Jr Copy Share Image
“Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil… — Jack Kemp Copy Share Image
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved.… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am -… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
We don't want to blame the victim. The civil rights movement had a profound effect on the United States and on the… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
You got to understand, Arthur Alexander was there with us, and some of his crew. It was in the '50s in Alabama.… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We want to make certain that every American who stood in silent tribute to Rosa Parks hopes that the Sepreme Court Judge… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“While the Reconstruction Era was fraught with corruption and arguably doomed by the lack of land reform, the sweeping economic and political… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
“Moreover, upon revelations that the Internal Revenue Service, under the president and his subordinates, had invidiously targeted conservative organizations for harassment and… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
“The revolution had come too late for him. He was in his midforties when the Civil Rights Act was signed and close… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
A lot of it was, you know, you look for moments where, for instance, we were dependent on Abraham Lincoln making sure… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
“Your right to swing your arm leaves off where my right not to have my nose struck begins.” — John B. Finch Copy Share Image
I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move. — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. — Edison Haines Copy Share Image
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement. — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
