Quotes About Civil rights

It's not just Mississippi. The North is segregated too. This is work the whole country needs to do. White people need to understand the bitterness we feel about slavery. There's pride that we survived the whole experience and came through it with dignity, and then successfully fought for our civil rights, but a lot of white people act like it's no big deal, or we should be grateful for what we have now. They haven't even begun to understand.

James Jackson, the barber, led the meeting, which was filmed by a documentary filmmaker named Ed Pincus, who was in Natchez documenting the civil rights struggle. The resulting film, Black Natchez, is still widely available.

On segregation, the presidency has held silent since Reconstruction.

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Every decent man in America ought to swoon with joy for the opportunity to crush with his heel the woolly head of this black lizard, to keep him from scuttling on his belly farther over the earth and spitting forth his venom of death!

There isn't any Negro problem; there is only a white problem.

Goldwater was, in other words, a candidate for voters in Boston as much as those in Birmingham—catering to white voters who were against the idea of federal civil rights legislation but at the same time desperate to receive assurances that this didn't make them bad people.

A pro–civil rights columnist for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger noted the familiar faces from his reporting on White Citizens Council meetings back in the 1950s and '60s. Only one thing was different: "Their enemy now is not the black man but 'liberalism,' in any form, as they see it.

A white American can orbit the earth, but a black American can't enter a restroom.

We have never made a gain, in civil rights, without pressure

Our great stumbling block, in our stride toward freedom, is not the White Citizens' Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner. It's the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who constantly says, like Bobby Kennedy: 'I agree with the goal you seek, but I cannot condone your methods.

That my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character—I have a dream today.

Sueño que un día esta nación se alzará y vivirá de acuerdo con el verdadero sentido de su credo: «Sostenemos como certeza manifiesta que todos los hombres fueron creados por igual».

eloquently honour President Kennedy's memory than the earliest possible passage of the civil rights bill for which he fought so long.

George did not press Joe. He was scared enough himself. If he started to discuss the dangers he might talk himself out of going. He looked around the group. He was pleased to see John Lewis, a quietly impressive theology student who was a founding member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the most radical of the civil rights groups.

In America in 1961, while the police looked on, white racists could attack civil rights protestors, break their bones, try to burn them to death – and get away with it.

Our great stumbling block, in our stride toward freedom, is not the White Citizens' Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner. It's the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who constantly says, like Bobby Kennedy: 'I agree with the goal you seek, but I cannot condone your methods.' He paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man's freedom

Un americano blanco puede orbitar alrededor de la Tierra, pero un americano negro no puede entrar en un lavabo.»

Now, the black man here was so-called free by [Abe] Lincoln 100 years ago. The black man in America has an - has a purchasing power of 20 billion dollars. Now, and he's educated.

When Dr. King was murdered, I had no idea who he was. But as soon as I heard his words on television that night when I was 9 years old, I was dumbstruck, awestruck by their power.

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 rules are rather simple to understand: Under democracy you can defend any view, but only defend it. You can not try to realise it through power, violence or weapons.

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.

When I marched with Martin Luther King in Selma, I felt my legs were praying.