Civil Rights Quotes - Page 8

• I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to live in peace. Their right to be treated with dignity. Their right to equality of opportunity. Their right to be educated.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Inspiring, Opportunity, Equality

  Malala Yousafzai's Speech to the UN General Assembly, www.independent.co.uk. July 12, 2013.

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• We have to "walk the walk" not just "talk the talk".

  Paul Kivel

  Walks

  Paul Kivel (2013). “Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice Ð 3rd Edition”, p.4, New Society Publishers

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• Education is the single-most important civil rights issue that we face today.

  Michelle Obama

  Rights, Issues, Important

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• We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going to sleep as a girl hearing the Klan ride at night and hearing a lynching and being afraid the house would burn down.

  Rosa Parks

  Girl, Sleep, Night

  "Standing Up for Freedom". Academy of Achievement, October 31, 2005.

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• It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings.

  Glenda Jackson

  Eye, Giving, Movement

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  Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.

  Samuel Adams

  Rights, Liberty, Together

  Samuel Adams (1946). “Samuel Adams: selections from his writings”

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• When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

  Bruce Hornsby

  Country, Song, Hippie

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• When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  School, Rights, Culture

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• I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Country, Hippie, Rights

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Believe, School, Rights

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• What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

  David Price

  Hippie, Rights, Movement

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• The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

  Paul Farmer

  Rights, Views, Community

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• As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

  James T. Walsh

  Change, Kings, Rights

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• The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.

  Antonin Scalia

  Sex, Hippie, Rights

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• We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

  Clarence Thomas

  Rights, Civil Rights Act Of 1964, Civil Rights Act

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• You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Tree, Humans

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.

  Stokely Carmichael

  Rights, Cities, Black

  Black Power Address at UC Berkeley, delivered October 1966, Berkeley, CA

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• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  Major Owens

  Rights, Two, People

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• When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Country, Moving, Rights

  "Ask What You Can Do For Your Country" by Marian Wright Edelman, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 22, 2013.

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• I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

  Al Franken

  Rights, Vietnam, Movement

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• I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.

  Al Franken

  Nice, Fighting, Rights

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• The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

  Carol Moseley Braun

  Rights, Racism, Victory

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• I would not have suffered my name to have been used by my friends on anywise as President of the United States, or candidate for that office, if I and my friends could have had the privilege of enjoying our religious and civil rights as American citizens, even those rights which the Constitution guarantees unto all her citizens alike.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Religious, Freedom, Names

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• The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human freedoms: religious practice and the privacy of the individual mind.

  Terence McKenna

  Religious, Issues, Rights

  Terence McKenna (2010). “Food Of The Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge”, p.255, Random House

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• The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

  Charles Rangel

  Equality, Rights, Justice

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