Quotes About Civil rights

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Certainly many Northern cities deplored what was going on in the South. But when Martin Luther King, who had been so praised in the North for the work he did in the South, came to work in the cities of the North, the very officials who had praised him sometimes led opposition to his work locally.

Some whites, who had never really understood, were offended by this sudden death of their role as the "good white leading the poor black out of the jungle." Many of these were among the saddest people of our time, good-hearted whites who had dedicated themselves to helping black people become imitation whites, to "bringing them up to our level," without ever realizing what a deep insult this attitude can be.

Hey! All you peoples draggin along here. Stop and come stick your ass on a Night of Joy stool, he started again. Night of Joy got genuine color peoples workin below the minimal wage. Whoa! Guarantee plantation atmosphere, got cotton growin right on the stage right in front your eyeball, got a civil right worker gettin his ass beat up between show. Hey!

These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we've got these knuckleheads walking round.

Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.

You don't have to live next to me / Just give me my equality.

If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.

Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.

And when I say equality, I mean equality for everybody. Who are you telling who they can marry and who they can't? What is this? This is 2014.

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

The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law.

Equality, because without it there can be no liberty.

Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.

I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; the rock was landed on us.

Move back," President Clinton said. "Let this mother through. Don't you know who this is?

Rosa Parks was the queen mother of a movement whose single act of heroism sparked the movement for freedom, justice and equality. Her greatest contribution is that she told us a regular person can make a difference.

The anger that was coursing through America deeply worried her. Although she was too young to remember the beginnings of the civil rights, anti–Vietnam War, and feminist movements, she was also a student of history. Her sense was that as bad as things had been in the sixties, people of goodwill still dominated. The