Civil Rights Quotes - Page 28

• 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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• While on the level of civil rights many things have changed decisively for the better, on the level of attitudes and mentality there's still a long way to go. On the other hand it's obvious that it's much easier to change a law than to change a way of thinking.

  Dacia Maraini

  Attitude, Thinking, Rights

  "A ‘special’ writer. Dacia Maraini in interview". Interview with Vincenza Fanizza, www.threemonkeysonline.com.

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• Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we in Jamaica were talking about black art. And the idea that there is a role for art in the civil rights revolution and in the successor to the civil rights revolution.

  Mark McMorris

  Art, Ideas, Rights

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.

  Angela Davis

  Thinking, Rights, People

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• My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone.

  Pauley Perrette

  Rights, Life Is, Activist

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared to death, marching against the KKK in South Georgia. And I have never stopped marching in protests since. Not ever. I mean, LGBT rights, women's rights, the rights of people of color... I'm your guy. I'm going to be out there marching!

  Pauley Perrette

  Mean, Kids, Rights

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the many leaders who played a key role in abolishing slavery, protecting civil rights and, hopefully one day, becoming a nation where all life from conception to natural death is protected.

  Marco Rubio

  Keys, Rights, Perfect

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.

  Gloria Allred

  Fighting, Rights, Two

  Source: dot429.com

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• If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.

  Jack Nicholson

  Rights, Issues, Ifs

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I would have to say all of the civil rights acts, because there were three, and even, say, the Immigration Act, which I think also is a civil rights act, maybe on a global perspective, that he cared very, very much about it.

  Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

  Thinking, Rights, Perspective

  "How the Civil Rights Act pioneered anti-discrimination laws in America". “PBS NewsHour" with Gwen Ifill, www.pbs.org. April 10, 2014.

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• The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to change the laws in its favor.

  Voltaire

  Exercise, Rights, Law

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• Are you kidding me? It's insane that civil rights are being denied people in this day and age. It's embarrassing, and it's heartbreaking. It goes without saying that I'm completely in support of gay marriage. In 10 years we'll be ashamed that this was an issue.

  Chris Evans

  Gay, Rights, Years

  "Chris Evans On Gay Marriage: ‘In 10 Years We’ll Be Ashamed That This Was An Issue’". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 21, 2012.

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• When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

  Benjamin Harrison

  Men, Rights, Law

  Benjamin Harrison (1893). “Public Papers and Addresses of Benjamin Harrison: Twenty -third President of the United States. March 4, 1889, to March 4, 1893”

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• Up until, really, Roosevelt, African-Americans largely voted ninety per cent Republican. That was the political origins, that's what their political voice was in the Republican party. During that history, that last sixty or seventy years of history, the Republican party effectively walked away from the community. They were afraid to really embrace civil rights even though they embraced civil rights legislation. And so it's not enough to just to put it on paper, you gotta actually show up and be in the community, and understand what that struggle was really about.

  Michael Steele

  Party, Struggle, Rights

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• Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo -- a black on the outside, a white on the inside -- that an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?

  John McLaughlin

  Struggle, Fighting, Rights

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• It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

  Bobby Scott

  Hippie, Rights, Importance

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• They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

  Tom Allen

  Hippie, Rights, Law

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• Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty; and the right of private property. In a state of slavery, the two last are wholly abolished, the person of the slave being at the absolute disposal of his master; and property, what he is incapable, in that state, either of acquiring, or holding, in his own use. Hence, it will appear how perfectly irreconcilable a state of slavery is to the principles of a democracy, which form the basis and foundation of our government.

  St. George Tucker

  Two, Rights, Government

  St. George Tucker (1990). “A Dissertation on Slavery: With a Proposal for the Gradual Abolition of it in the State of Virginia”

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• I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.

  Bill Ayers

  War, Rights, Support

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• You got to understand, Arthur Alexander was there with us, and some of his crew. It was in the '50s in Alabama. It was before even the civil rights stuff even started. You can imagine the hatred, although we didn't have it as bad as other parts of the country, I must say.

  Donnie Fritts

  Country, Rights, Hatred

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The era of Reconstruction and then the subsequent dismantling of Reconstruction sent us in a tailspin. Then we had the Civil Rights movement. Now we have our first non-white president. We have a pattern of moving apart and then coming back together throughout the history of this country. Each time, we come closer.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Moving, Rights

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the elites call the shots. Inside accounts reveal the extent to which Johnson and Nixon's conduct of the Vietnam War was constrained by the huge anti-war movement. It was the civil rights movement, not compelling arguments, that convinced members of Congress to end legal racial discrimination.

  Dean Baker

  Hate, War, People

  "Won’t You Please Come to Chicago?" by Dean Baker, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.

  Anna Holmes

  Mother, Issues, Rights

  "How Jezebel Smashes the Patriarchy, Click by Click". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2013.

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• The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Rights, People, Black

  "Ayaan Hirsi Ali on why Christians should try to convert Muslims". Interview with Kate Fillion, www.macleans.ca. May 21, 2010.

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• Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

  Bill Ayers

  Rights, Movement, Students

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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