Civil Rights Quotes & Sayings

Quotes with keyword Civil Rights
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~ There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. ~

Stokely Carmichael

~ The folk thing was about civil rights... ... Folk music is the music of the working class, the music of the folks. Blues is folk music. ~

Otis Taylor

~ We do not regard it as acceptable that those of us who regard it as our duty to challenge any legislation which may have the effect of detracting from the civil rights and individual liberties if any citizen if the UK should be traduced in this way. ~

Sir Menzies Campbell

~ My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights. ~

Bruce Springsteen

~ There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party. ~

Pete du Pont

~ Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. ~

Mary Frances Berry

~ We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation. ~

Senator John Kerry

~ The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln ~

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

~ I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964 ~

Ronald Reagan

~ At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement. ~

Bernice Johnson Reagon

~ Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with it. Become a dedicated fighter for civil rights. Make it a central part of your life. It will make you a better doctor, a better lawyer, a better teacher. It will enrich your spirit as nothing else possibly can. It will give you that rare sense of nobility that can only spring from love and selflessly helping your fellow man. Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in. ~

Martin Luther King Jr

~ It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which establishes in civil rights the natural equality between men. It is this celestial voice which dictates to each citizen the precepts of public reason, and teaches him to act according to the rules of his own judgment and not to behave inconsistently with himself. It is with this voice alone that political leaders should speak when. they command. ~

Jean Jacques Rousseau

~ If gay and lesbian people are given civil rights, then everyone will want them! ~

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