Civil rights Quote by James Hansen

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

— Yvette Clarke

“Mass incarceration—not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement—is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement”

— Michelle Alexander

Martin Luther King wanted to be morally consistent and speak out against various things that were wrong, not just racism.

— Cornel West

Martin Luther King Jr's agenda was not to help Negroes overcome American apartheid in the south. It was to make America democracy a better…

— Cornel West

“Fore more than a decade - from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s - conservatives systematically and strategically linked opposition to civil rights legislation…

— Michelle Alexander

Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective.

— Malcolm X

It's a good bet that if Jesse Jackson calls something a 'civil rights issue,' it's not.

— Jesse Lee Peterson

Though the rampant racial injustices throughout the criminal justice system were offensive to me and to millions of other people, I've never drawn a…

— Van Jones

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere" ... Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”

— H.E. Kline

“Deterrents properly placed can help. But that is not enough. We are one society, and as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, what we…

— Cory Booker

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

— Bryan Cranston

The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were…

— Danny Glover