Quotes About Civil rights

As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal.

Brown v. Board of Education was arguably the most important decision of the Supreme Court in the 20th century.

There's the phrase of 'making America great again,' but how did we make America great? Who did it? It was Thurgood Marshall who did it. It was Thurgood Marshall who made America live up to its constitution, to its dream. He pushed the envelope to make sure that we were equal.

With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was a woman who refused to surrender the reigns of what she knew to be her assignment, even when male civil rights and business leaders tried to convince her that she should leave the work of building her husband's legacy to them.

They said that this is a civil rights issue, it's a human rights issue, it's everyone's problem, it's not isolated, and it's never going to be acceptable again. It has to change. It's your job to change it, and mine, and ours

Among other targets of protest was the infuriating Red Cross practice of separating Negro from white contributions to blood banks for the aid of wounded servicemen—a division made all the more distasteful by the fact that the plasma-preserving process that made blood banks practical had been largely developed by a Negro, Dr. Charles Drew of Howard University.

No better example of the price of economic dependency may be culled from U.S. history than the sustained erosion of the African American's civil rights.

In the twenty years following the Supreme Court's decision in the Civil Rights Cases, 3,000 lynchings occurred.

In Clarendon County for the school year 1949-50, they spent $179 per white child in the public schools; for each black child, they spent $43.

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

There are men who strike at liberty under the term licentiousness

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights

Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.

That's where Dr. [Martin Luther] King is mixed up. His goals should be the solution of the problem of the black man in America.

All men & women are created equal

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

The law does not require a man to cease to be a man, and act without regard to consequences, when he becomes a juror.

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality.

The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread.

When I say things like 'Marriage should be between one man and one woman,' I'm called a bigot.

Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers.