Civil rights Quote by Michelle Alexander

“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

“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

“Protesting often times takes a stance of offense; a form of violence that may not always be physical but is a form of violence…

— Eric Overby

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

— Tariq Ali

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

“Peaceful civil disobedience to unjust laws, which I support with every fiber of my being, can sometimes be necessary at any level of government.…

— Ron Paul

Civil disobedience is the assertion of a right which law should give but which it denies.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and…

— Michelle Alexander

Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Justice has a right to protest against injustice.”

— sir kristian goldmund aumann

“Civil disobedience, as I put it to the audience, was not the problem, despite the warnings of some that it threatened social stability, that…

— Howard Zinn