Civil Rights Quotes - Page 27

• ... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of racial solidarity that suppress dissent and critique can lead black folks to support individuals who will not protect their rights.

  Bell Hooks

  Rights, Support, Black

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• Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man's yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!

  Flora Tristan

  Men, Rights, Law

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• The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights movement understood very clearly, and stated very beautifully, that it was a question of humanism, not a sectarian movement at all.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Kings, Rights, Drs

  Christopher Hitchens (2017). “Christopher Hitchens: The Last Interview: and Other Conversations”, p.49, Melville House

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• We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Rights, Issues, Needs

  "Now Is the Time. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Labor in the South: The Case for a Coalition". Book by Martin Luther King, Jr., Statement on minimum wage legislation (March 18, 1966), January 1986.

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• Judge Samuel Alito was born and raised in the great state of New Jersey. Our state has a legacy of producing outstanding jurists, most notably the late William J. Brennan, who ushered in our nation's recommitment to civil rights in the latter half of the 20th century.

  Frank Lautenberg

  Rights, Judging, Legacy

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the African-American community. They had right on their side. They conducted themselves in high standards, with courage and determination, and they were victorious. They overcame.

  Jeff Sessions

  Determination, Rights, White

  Source: www.politico.com

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• I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.

  Victoria Gray Adams

  Moving, Order, Steps

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• They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating new discrimination. (Defending his nominees for Civil Rights Commission)

  Ronald Reagan

  Believe, Past, Rights

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• Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Life, Fighting, Rights

  "Can Bernie Sanders win black voters?" by Nia-Malika Henderson and Chris Moody, www.cnn.com. July 27, 2015.

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• I want some help on this. I'm being very honest, i want some ideas, as somebody who was arrested 50 years ago fighting for Civil Rights trying to desegregate schools in Chicago, who spent his whole life fighting against racism, I want your ideas. What do you think we can do? What can we do?

  Bernie Sanders

  Life, School, Fighting

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• I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fighting, Rights, Long

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 28, 2015.

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• Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting positive impact on our state will be felt by many future generations of Georgians.

  Nathan Deal

  Leadership, Character, Impact

  "Former Georgia Governor Carl Sanders Dies At 89" By David Beasley, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

  Jehane Noujaim

  Taken, Fighting, Rights

  "Revolution in The Square: Q&A with Jehane Noujaim". Interview with Thu-Huong Ha, blog.ted.com. February 23, 2013.

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• America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and the developments in the '70s and '80s. We have witnessed a great expansion of the black middle class.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rights, Collective Unconscious, Class

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not something men have and women don't and so on.

  Julian Bond

  Appreciation, Men, Rights

  Interview with Heidi Williamson, www.americanprogress.org. February 22, 2013.

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• There's this big debate that goes on in America about what rights are: Civil rights, human rights, what they are? it's an artificial debate. Because everybody has rights. Everybody has rights - I don't care who you are, what you do, where you come from, how you were born, what your race or creed or color is. You have rights. Everybody's got rights.

  Julian Bond

  America, Rights, Race

  Interview with Heidi Williamson, www.americanprogress.org. February 22, 2013.

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• As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Thinking, Rights, Important

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Children, Rights, Offering

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and I'm not just talking about just to eat. You have to think about the civil rights movement, they were putting in work; marching, walking miles and miles, sacrificing, getting on the bus, feeding one another, they had schools, voter registration, they were working! They were hard workers so my advice is to work.

  Eric Thomas

  School, Hard Work, Sacrifice

  "Daily Word: Happy Holidays!! You Have to Want Success As Bad As You Want To Breathe!!". Interview with Ash Cash, allhiphop.com. December 25, 2012.

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• The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In sex. In spiritual values. In opposition to wars no one wants. In opposition to government big-brotherhood. In civil rights. In basic human goals. They're all facets of a general upheaval.

  Johnny Carson

  Spiritual, Sex, War

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of '63. In many ways, I think it was the high-water mark of the civil rights movement.

  Charlton Heston

  Summer, Art, Thinking

  Interview with Bill Kauffman, reason.com. April 1, 1987.

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• I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I'm not racist.

  Bo Burnham

  Thinking, Rights, Feminist

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• Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.

  Otis Moss III

  Rights, People, Voting

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• I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.

  Saul Williams

  Song, Art, Past

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family knew she was just trying to stop civil rights.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Suicide, Humor

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