Civil rights Quote by Nat Hentoff

In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.

— Nat Hentoff

[A.J. Muste] never engaged in violence but he believed, as [Mahatma] Gandhi did - and he knew Gandhi slightly - he believed that a…

— Nat Hentoff

A.J. [Muste] was a - as he likes to say, a radical pacifist.

— Nat Hentoff

Martin Luther King Jr. was not just a man of peace. He was a radical pacifist, and so he was against war across the…

— Cornel West

One of the most influential sources of peace is simply being comfortable with who you really are.

— Nikhil Saluja

Martin Luther King, Jr.'s peaceful, determined struggle for social justice, and Sargent Shriver, who launched the Peace Corps, were early heroes. A career of…

— Queen Noor of Jordan

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love…

— Bell Hooks

“King became the movement’s voice and launched a new phase of mass protest. He was a disciple of the teachings of Gandhi and Thoreau,…

— Anthony R. Fellow

I was very active in the peace movement, still am

— Margot Kidder

I was brought up in a family of journalists, and a mother who was deeply committed to human rights, so I think that the…

— Anna Wintour

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India,…

— Jack Canfield

any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.

— Mary Heaton Vorse