Civil Quotes

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

The price of conviction has never been cheap, but it will always be worth it.

Political correctness’ is a label the privileged often use to distract from their privilege and hate.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

How a member of the church—one who had read the Good Lord’s bible—could sit so calmly and watch a man be led to his destruction frightened me.

The missing link between humans and apes? It's certainly those brutes who haven't yet learned to respect privacy.

No, I will not join your Civil War reenactment troupe.

How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker

The "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" begins with "life", and "life" begins at conception.

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.

History could not be any clearer: Rights given by fad and fashion are just as easily taken away. The Constitution matters.

I am groping about through this American forest of prejudice and proscription, determined to find some form of civilization where all men will be accepted for what they are worth.

I consider myself an American African because we did not come by choice.

A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

People often call fighting racism being 'PC' when they don't want to confront their own prejudice

Most white Americans were willing to sacrifice civil liberties in the name of national security as long as they were the civil liberties of someone else.

The ground had opened up and spit out hell, Nell thought, and the detritus was Shiloh.

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.

[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fi

I recall Ghandi said ultimately all things devolve into the political, but I'd argue that all things devolve into pro-people and anti-people. And I can pose the question, which side are you on?

There is more than one way to be Kluxed, and we need to think about ourselves and the kind of people we elect into public office.

The bed sheet brigade is bad enough, but the real threat to Americans and human rights today is the plain clothes Klux in the halls of government and certain black-robed Klux on court benches.

Throughout world history, all freedom has been no more than repetitious abolishment of what has already been abolished. There is no end to the killing of weeds.

There are all kinds of ways to be in the world. And no matter what has happened to us, or what we have been told, or what we have believed, we get to choose our way.

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

There will always be people afraid of the monsters in the night. They are usually the ones that look for them because they have proven they exist in themselves.

Our civil position should not depend on the tests and problems we go through

Sea and land may lie between us, but my heart is always there with you.

I stop to brace myself against the walls, which are painted with the fingerprints of family.

‎"He smiled at me and I felt the tenderness only a daughter could feel.

It was not an unusual site to see Negro tenant farmers crossing the intersection of Spring and Barbrick on the way to the cotton warehouse

Our hatred of government is not caused mainly by government's goals, whatever their wisdom, but by government's techniques." Philip Howard

Jason smiled. The sound of wings was louder now, the fluttering of angels come to carry him home.

The 20th Century proved that there is nothing more dangerous to the health of ethnic minority communities than big government.

(The golden goose has died, my prince turned into a frog, the Kingdom is lost, everyone has turned into stone and I am locked in the tower)

Readers will be swept up by the drama and fast pace of this powerful debut novel.” Reading Today Online, International Reading Association

An Underground Railroad story with a distinctive flavor. –Booklist

A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice

Very different from other middle grade of YA stories I've read about slaves running during the 1800s. – Wandering Librarian

THE FIGHTING IN THE PEACH ORCHARD AT GETTYSBURGPROLOGUE"The same young men who crowded each other as they faced the recruiters' tables now crowded each other as they died.

Ain’t nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.

I was too far away to hear what was said but I saw in Val’s eyes the same fear that I had once known and could well guess at Lucas’ unthinking remark.

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.

I will follow anyone... And tell everyone...How grateful I am...To the Western nations.

Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.

Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.