225 Civil Rights Quotes for You to Enjoy

In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, I was able to visit with several of the leading Gandhians there. The hundred-to-one difference in average per capita income between America and India at the time was a stark reality for the people who became my friends there. Bill Drayton

Time Rights Reality People Several Visit Visited Rights Movement India Civil Able Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Per Leading Between For The People Involved Became Friends America Difference Movement Average Who Income Stark

My dad spent most of the '50s and early '60s actually acting as sort of an advance man for the Justice Department, as a civil rights lawyer. So it was actually reading his papers after he passed away a few years ago that first started me thinking about this... What fraction of your life do you spend in service to your fellow man? Bill Foster

Life Service Me You Man Justice Rights Lawyer First Reading Few Thinking Spend Spent Papers Civil Civil Rights About Advance He Most Fellow Fellow Man Sort Passed His Years Years Ago Department After Justice Department Acting Your Dad Away Actually Early Started Fraction

As a life-long liberal who has engaged in protests against the government and for civil rights, I am saddened at efforts by some of my fellow liberals to silence commencement speakers with whom they might disagree on some issues. Bob Beckel

Government Silence Rights Disagree Liberal Liberals Civil Some Civil Rights Life-Long Saddened Fellow Protests Am Issues Commencement Efforts Against Might Engaged Speakers Who Whom

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

Rights Difficult Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Act Importance Overstate Act

Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't. Bonnie Raitt

You Justice Struggle Peace Rights People Back Those Rights Movement Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Give More Share Quakers Ideas Known Were Ban Very Than American Childhood Movement Native Native American Wanting Then Working Who Bomb Things Need

There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty. Brandi Carlile

Life Love Day Gay You Be Happy Rights Happy People Liberty End Of The Day Visited Civil Civil Rights Hospital Pursuit Because Spouse Still Issues End Want Who Humanitarian

Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement with the civil rights movement. Brandon Victor Dixon

Music Rights Legend Think Enough Rights Movement Berry Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Know Involvement His Gets Movement Credit

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong. Bryan Cranston

Rights Oppression Kind Civil Civil Rights Wrong Any

All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's future. This is not about independence: it is about fundamental civil rights and the universal right of self-determination. Carles Puigdemont

Future Democracy Vote Rights Independence Free Out Carry Civil Civil Rights About Self-Determination Greatest Want Expression Fundamental Right Universal

European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government. Carles Puigdemont

Government Freedom Rights Values Freedom Of Speech Civil Civil Rights Being Central Spain Central Government European Assembly Violated Speech

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. Carol Moseley Braun

You Rights Generation Racism Victory Made Important Rights Movement Embrace Unpopular Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement Had Get Movement Whereas Anything Turn Century Elected Really Last Last Century

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates. Carol Moseley Braun

I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren. Caroline Kennedy

Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus. Charles B. Rangel

Freedom Justice Rights Focus King Jobs Dream Civil Civil Rights Delivered Beyond Call Traditional Movement Famous Washington March Dr Speech

I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery. Charles B. Rangel

The foundation of the house of civil rights is in the voices of all the great civil rights leaders and the soul of every person who heard them. It's in the hands of every person who folded a leaflet for change, and it's in the courage of every person who changed. Cheryl Mills

Great Change Soul Rights Courage Every Changed Folded Civil Civil Rights Voices Leaders House Heard Person Hands Them Who Foundation

In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes on the civil rights era and 40 minutes on Martin Luther King, and that's it. Colson Whitehead

You Rights King Civil Minutes Civil Rights Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Abraham Abraham Lincoln Era Lincoln Did Grade Might Fifth Slavery Luther

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. Constance Baker Motley

Rights King Leader Become Reckoning Civil Civil Rights Had New Media

Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else. Coretta Scott King

Rights Human Being Sometimes Thought Leader Own Rich Human Rights Else Everyone Everyone Else Way Complex Would Civil Civil Rights Three-Dimensional My Own Like Identified Also Am Human Being Experiences Much Unique Activist

Mr. Sessions' conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws, indicated that he lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a federal judge. Coretta Scott King

Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge. Coretta Scott King

Vote Rights Judge Achieve Chill Black Free Husband Long Power Awesome Citizens District Civil Civil Rights Seeks Federal Federal Judge He Leaders Box Exercise Access Ballot Ballot Box His Office Unfettered Turner Used Hard Including Fought Now Serve Albert

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening! Cyndi Lauper

Family You Rights Speak Everything Civil See Civil Rights Taken Come Up Friends Family And Friends Being Where Happening Your Keep Away

I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice. Dan Wakefield

Great Me You Justice Rights People Writing Great Deal Reading Nation Christian Saw Those Rights Movement Civil Magazine Civil Rights Civil Rights Movement About Reminded Term Days Also Wrote Deal Esquire Just Movement Meant Coffin Biography

Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality. David Mixner

Struggle Rights Marriage Battle Equality Other Our Mine Relentless Marriage Equality Has-Been Responsible Civil Civil Rights More He Almost Courageous Forefront Dear Dear Friend Issue Been Friend Pioneer Than Any Who Bringing

We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker again. It's a phenomenal script and a great, great role - I play his son. Oprah Winfrey is his wife and my mother. My character is a radical civil rights activist. David Oyelowo

Work Great Character Me Rights Son Mother Amazing Wife Radical Incredibly Civil Civil Rights Exciting Because His Oprah Oprah Winfrey Forest June Role Get Again Script Activist Play Butler Start Phenomenal

Civil Rights Quotes

No more civil rights quotes