Absence Quote by Bayard Rustin

Ultimately, it is only a powerful civil society movement which can break the vicious cycle of corruption in any society.

— Prashant Bhushan

I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there…

— Barack Obama

Just what is the civil law? What neither influence can affect, nor power break, nor money corrupt: were it to be suppressed or even…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's…

— Stokely Carmichael

Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a…

— Emma Goldman

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and,…

— Norman Granz

Power corrupts, but lack of power corrupts absolutely.

— Adlai Stevenson I

Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.

— James Hansen

If power corrupts, the reverse is also true; persecution corrupts the victims though perhaps in subtler and more tragic ways.

— Arthur Koestler

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the…

— Robert Kennedy

Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only…

— Howard Nemerov