Civil Rights Quotes

Filibuster has long tradition, but used to harm civil rights.

Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing, something I never even knew existed.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need.

You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.

I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States. People are brought together in other ways that can become drivers of change.

How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and is more and more difficult to check?

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.

In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

....we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's always outside agitators doing it.

My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure.

Black Realism or cosmopolitan black politician is a code word to say this is a black person that is not tied to a civil rights/black power traditional black politics.

The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!"

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

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

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone.

I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.

Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that have been offer'd to private subjects.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.