Quotes About Civil rights

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

The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina.

So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

For a black student to work in southwest Mississippi for example - or in the Delta in 1960, 1961, 1962 - was high-risk work.

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.

The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected.

government that breaks its own laws can also easily break you.

It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.

When I hear someone's in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

One of the points in which I was especially interested was the Jim Crow regulations, that is, the system of separation of the races in street cars and railroad trains.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.

The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

And who's next, Mr. and Mrs. America, now that the Bill of Rights is no longer the law of the land and the racial haters are running the show

One pro-slavery writer in New York spoke for many slave owners when he said that emancipation and civil rights for freed slaves would be "the total subversion of OUR liberties.

He has used this undeserved respect, in conjunction with other black demagogues, to transform a civil rights movement that once stood for race-neutrality in the law, into a vigilante posse seeking one law for "people of color" and another for the rest of America.

Thus, the proclaimed goal of affirmative action advocates is to level the playing field. It is defined this way to highlight the left's claim that traditional civil rights solutions have failed to achieve real equality, by which is meant equality of results. Traditional civil rights solutions were focused on the fairness of the institutional process, the elimination of legal barriers to political power and individual opportunity.

Civil rights is just one battlefield in the real war of the left, which is the war against America itself. The big guns of this war are directed from the centers of intellect on the high ground of the university culture, where tenured radicals have created an anti-American ideology and forced it on the nation's youth through the curriculum.

One discouraging aspect of identity politics is that the left shows they don't really want these problems solved. They will never acknowledge progress in civil rights, women's rights, or overall interracial tolerance. It is not in their political interests to do so because their political power, which they crave above all else, depends on the existence of perpetual classes of victims. Their lust for social justice (read: revenge) is insatiable.

As Jim Lawrence, a black labor activist at a GM plant in Dayton, Ohio, describes it, during the 1960s 'the union gave foremen a blank check to mistreat blacks and keep them out of the high-rate machine jobs and the skilled trades.' 

The struggle of African Americans is everybody's struggle.

My only crime was being born black - or being born black in Alabama.