Civil Rights Quotes - Page 13

• This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

  Hamid Dabashi

  Rights, Movement, Revolution

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• Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Successful, Good Friend, Rights

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• A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.

  Ned Sublette

  Rights, Community, Peaceful

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• This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of the common law, that a man's house shall be his own castle, privileged against all civil and military intrusion.

  Joseph Story

  Military, Men, Law

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• For liberalism is a delicate thing. It encompasses so much -- constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of worship, civil rights, free trade -- that we think of it as timeless and universal. But liberalism came into being in a real place and time, like a flame it has wavered in various eras, and it can be snuffed out.

  Russell Shorto

  Real, Thinking, Flames

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• We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

  Walter Lippmann

  Opponents, Speak, Protect

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• Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.

  Peter Kropotkin

  Men, Rights, Class

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• I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.

  Van Jones

  Humble, Superhero, Attorney

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You've got the whole civil rights movements emanating from the south, you've got the music that came out of the south that is the core of our current music, so for me that thinking comes out of having Dukes of Hazzard thrown in your face: that the south is a bunch of twangy people that I can't understand. So this is, hopefully, part of the movement to restore the south to its proper and rightful place in our nation... which is huge and pervasive. It's not about Texas - I'm not saying Texas doesn't have it's own unique history - but the south has this at its core.

  Debra Winger

  Unique, Thinking, People

  Source: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

  Gloria Allred

  Rights, Victim, Attorney

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• Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and despair. But that's one of the things that connects this climate movement to the previous great moral revolutions, like the civil rights movement and more recently the gay rights movement. So those who feel despair should be of good cheer, as the Bible says. Have faith, have hope. We are going to win this.

  Al Gore

  Cheer, Struggle, Gay

  "Former VP Al Gore on environmentalism, Trump, and the climate crisis". "Sunday Morning" with Lee Cowan, www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2017.

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• Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Firsts, Privilege, Ridiculous

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• This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges were brought to all three of these monumental pieces of legislation.

  Stephanie Cutter

  Rights, Voting, Childhood

  "Settled Law is on Side of Health Reform" by Stephanie Cutter, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 03, 2010.

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• We call on the Senate to reject any judicial nominee who does not affirm fundamental civil rights, including a woman's right [to obtain an abortion on demand]. The threat an [pro-life] judiciary poses to women's lives demands nothing less.

  Susana Martinez

  Rights, Pro Life, Abortion

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• The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren't worth a dime.

  Richard Viguerie

  Rights, Government, Liberty

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• The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance, there is always a temptation to invoke security "necessities" to justify an encroachment upon civil liberties. For that reason, the military-security argument must be approached with a healthy skepticism.

  William J. Brennan

  Military, Temptation, Healthy

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• What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So part of it, he's paying homage to this tradition that you can tell serious stories and talk about serious issues in graphic form.

  Daniel H. Pink

  Book, Interesting, Serious

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized...
  I am the hopeful black woman who was denied her right to vote.
  I am the caring white supporter killed on the front lines of freedom.
  I am the unarmed black kid who maybe needed a hand, but instead was given a bullet. I am the two fallen police officers murdered in the line of duty. 'Selma' has awakened my humanity.

  Common

  Kids, Caring, Rights

  "72nd Golden Globe Awards". www.imdb.com. 2015.

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• We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We don't feel that in 1964, living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom, and supposedly the leader of the free world, we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a President from Texas in Washington, D.C., to make up their minds that our people are due now some degree of civil rights. No, we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Mean, Thinking

  Malcolm X (1992). “By Any Means Necessary”, Pathfinder Press (NY)

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• When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Uncles, Struggle

  "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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• I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.

  James Earl Jones

  New York, Army, Rights

  "James Earl Jones on Vision". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and understanding. It seemed as if the dream of a color-blind society was within reach in the jazz world, where musicians were judged on merit and not skin color.

  Randy Sandke

  Dream, Dark, Rights

  Randy Sandke (2010). “Where the dark and the light folks meet: race and the mythology, politics, and business of jazz”, Scarecrow Pr

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• American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.

  Malcolm X

  Past, Rights, Lynching

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• In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

  David Duke

  Rights, Icons, Movement

  "Dr. Duke on CNN: Hear the UNCENSORED FULL Interview Here". CNN Interview, davidduke.com. January 5, 2015.

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• We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.

  Malcolm X

  Fighting, Rights, Facts

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