Civil rights Quote by James T. Patterson

I run a gay-rights organization from the Republican side of the aisle.

— Margaret Hoover

“I work for a human rights organization, which strikes me as, if not interesting in the day to day sense, at least an interesting…

— Nell Stevens

As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it.

— Wayne LaPierre

Those who still believe the United Nations is a human rights organization with the best of intentions are kidding themselves.

— Wayne LaPierre

This [EURO] was never a hate group, the European American Unity and Rights Organization was an organization in its charter is dedicated to true…

— David Duke

“A week later fifty-four sit-ins were under way in fifteen cities in nine states in the South.60 It was obvious from the way that…

— James T. Patterson

“So many black families spend all of their time trying to fix the problems of the past. That is the curse of being black…

— Trevor Noah

“So many black families spend all of their time trying to fix the problems of the past. That is the curse of being black…

— Trevor Noah

“The new black conservatives claim that transfer payments to the black needy engender a mentality of dependence which undercuts the value of self-reliance and…

— Cornel West

It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

— Larry Holmes

I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin’ in the hopeless, hungry side of town.

— Johnny Cash

If your experiences suggest to you that poor black folk are lazy, then you must be true to those experiences - except, however, as…

— Michael Eric Dyson

There are three dominant tendencies in a neoliberal society: financialized, privatized, militarized. And when it comes to black poor people, we get all three.

— Cornel West

“The black middle class displays a torn ambivalence toward the situation of the black poor. They sympathetically recognize the harms of racism and targeted…

— Mary Pattillo

The White House, in advancing the agenda for a [school] "choice" plan, rests its faith on market mechanisms. What reason have the black and…

— Jonathan Kozol