Quotes About Civil rights

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.

Homosexuality is not about love, it's not about family, and it's not about civil rights.

The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do.

To me, I know that if we could pass the Civil Rights Act of '64 over 50 years ago, then we can pass Justice for All Civil Rights Act. We can pass Medicare for All.

Rock 'n' roll was uniting black kids and white kids, and rock 'n' roll is not being given credit... for being just as important to the civil rights movement as the activists.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.

I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of people don't support you.'

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

Frederick Douglass had charged the air with rebellion and redemption, and these in turn had supported him in the heat of abolitionism. But the atmosphere changed to one of repression after the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.

I'm immensely proud to be a Democrat because of our party's history of fighting for justice, fairness, and equality. From Roosevelt to Obama, we've worked to bring seniors and children out of poverty, expanded civil rights, supported science and research, and pushed for equality of opportunity.

Let's remember, a protest isn't supposed to appease everybody.

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade of others. I think we kind of breathed a sigh of relief as if we had achieved the end of racial discrimination or white supremacy.

We live in a country whose government and many of its people support white supremacy and disintegration of basic human rights.

Traditionally, marriage is one arena where states have all but plenary power; it took until 1967 for the Supreme Court to tell states they could not prohibit interracial marriage.