Civil Rights Quotes - Page 29

• Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

  Mary Frances Berry

  Men, Rights, White Man

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• In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Women, Past, People

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• Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Rights, Attachment

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• The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.

  Evita Peron

  Rights, Government, Hands

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• Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.

  Wendell Phillips

  Rights, Government, Political

  Wendell Phillips (1864). “Speeches, Lectures, and Letters”, p.341

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• We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted by God in the Constitution. I mean, I'm discriminated against all the time. I don't care. It doesn't bother me. [I'm discriminated against] because I'm old. I'm too old to get a job as a game show host. They say, well, the guy's 71 and in five years he'll be 76. And I'm a one per center, and I'm absolutely discriminated against as a one per center.

  Chuck Woolery

  Jobs, Mean, Rights

  "Michele Bachmann At CPAC: Former GOP Candidate Slams Prop 8 Ruling, Meets Chuck Woolery" by Michelangelo Signorile, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2012.

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• Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

  Dan Rather

  Hate, Eye, Rights

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• In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Book, Rights, Black

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• We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community.

  Cleveland Sellers

  Beloved Community, Community, Beloved

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• Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Struggle, Native American, Rights

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• We wanted black power to be all things to all people.

  Cleveland Sellers

  People, Black, Wanted

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• Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of that; but there was no way we anticipated the response.

  Cleveland Sellers

  Moving, Responsibility, Black

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• It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

  Samuel Bowers

  Media, Pagan, Corruption

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• I think I came here as a priest... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must be eliminated.

  Samuel Bowers

  Thinking, Sin, Priests

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• If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not be denied healthcare. They should not be bullied. They don’t deserve to be victims of violence. … That’s what people need to understand, that it’s okay and that if you are uncomfortable with it, then you need to look at yourself.

  Laverne Cox

  Inspiring, Equality, People

  "Laverne Cox Talks to TIME About the Transgender Movement". Interview with Katy Steinmetz, time.com. May 29, 2014.

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• In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?

  Holly Near

  Women, Believe, Gay

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• Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real condition of children in America, however, see a very different picture-one in which children are victims of terrible discrimination, prejudice, and abuse. They need protection. But the protection they need most is to have the protection of civil rights, so that they can be regarded as full persons under the law.

  Richard Farson

  Children, Real, Views

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• It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you happen to live in.

  Annie Laurie Gaylor

  Gay, Simple, Rights

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• The gay marriage thing to me, I don't understand why it's so important for the secular progressives in this country, the people who want to change America fundamentally and every way, why this is the lead issue. The L.A. Times, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Boston Globe. These people are going, 'Oh, my God, what are you doing? How can you not see the civil rights aspect of this?'

  Bill O'Reilly

  Country, New York, Gay

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• [M]y mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. And while she may be proud of me tonight, I've got to tell you, Mom, I'm even more proud of you. Thank you, Mom.

  Julian Castro

  Mom, Mother, Rights

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• I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  War, Struggle, Mean

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1862). “Democracy in America”, p.486

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• Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide.

  E.W. Jackson

  Party, Rights, Kkk

  "Virginia Republicans nominate Tea Party favorite for lieutenant governor" by Adam Gabbatt, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2013.

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• Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Struggle, Rights, Looks

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• For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions.

  Coretta Scott King

  Fighting, Gay, Men

  Chicago Tribune, April 01, 1998.

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• Would America have been America without her Negro people?

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  America, People, Headstrong

  W. E. B. Du Bois, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington (2012). “Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass”, p.329, Courier Corporation

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