Civil rights Quote by David Harris

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments,…

— H. L. Mencken

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

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

— Walter Cronkite

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them…

— Claire McCaskill

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage…

— Barack Obama

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

— Macklemore

We were born with national rights. We don't need civil rights.

— Chuck Woolery

Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

— Rupert Friend

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for…

— Robert Kennedy

Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.

— Ari Shapiro

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

— Bobby Scott