Civil Rights Quotes - Page 32

• I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked.

  Sojourner Truth

  Rights, Years, Ice

  Ernest J. Gaines, Sojourner Truth, Mary Church Terrell, Pete Seeger (2000). “The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and related readings”

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• I would not open windows into men's souls.

  Elizabeth I

  Men, Soul, Privacy

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• Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians, don't wait for that time to arrive. Just as my father and his generation did not 'wait' for their civil rights, nor should you. The toothpaste ain't going back in the tube. The tide has turned.

  John Ridley

  Father, Gay, Rights

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Class, Issues

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

  Rupert Friend

  Rights, Civilized, Enjoyed

  "The 2015 GLAAD Media Awards: 5 Powerful and Inspiring Quotes" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. May 9, 2015.

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• We've made so many advances in other areas - civil rights, gay rights - but ageism is still an area that's taboo and not talked about and dealt with.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Gay, Rights, Made

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• It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're going to look back at tapes of these antigay people saying ridiculous things on the news and it's going to sound as antiquated as the newsreels of horrible racists from the '50s.

  Busy Philipps

  California, Issues, Rights

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Home, Rights

  "Q&A with Jim Brown". Interview with Charles Robinson, www.yahoo.com. November 30, 2006.

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• Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

  Cyndi Lauper

  Taken, Rights, Family And Friends

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• For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.

  Walter E. Williams

  Betrayal, Struggle, Rights

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• Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.

  Billy Graham

  Kings, Freedom, Rights

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• I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.

  Dick Gephardt

  Strong, Believe, Fighting

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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• Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Kings, Rights, Roots

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• The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I think it's about time that we extend that to all Americans, whether straight, gay, purple, green, black, brown.

  Octavia Spencer

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

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• Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

  Ralph Nader

  Rights, Our Generation, Abolition Of Slavery

  Ralph Nader (2014). “Unstoppable: The Emerging Left-Right Alliance to Dismantle the Corporate State”, p.192, Nation Books

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• Once again, we are thrilled to be hosting this amazing gathering for LGBT families from across the country. Our families are an important part of the LGBT civil rights battle and they are on the frontlines of educating Americans about the reality of our lives. It is important to give parents and their children a safe place to gather, an opportunity to re-energize and access to the tools we need to create a more just society. I invite everyone who cares about equality for all families to be a part of this historic week.

  Jennifer Chrisler

  Country, Children, Opportunity

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• Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.

  John Legend

  Kings, Kids, Rights

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• We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into the reality of natural rights because all of the natural world has a right to existence and we are only a small part of it. There can be no trade-off.

  John Trudell

  Ignorance, Reality, Rights

  John Trudell (1994). “Stickman: John Trudell Poems, Lyrics, Talks, a Conversation”

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• Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release, they're ushered into a parallel social universe in which the civil and human rights supposedly won during the Civil Rights Movement no longer apply to them.

  Michelle Alexander

  Men, Rights, Black

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I have no use for "men's rights," any more than I have any use for "women's rights," but let us ask: Who was it that decided it was a good idea to politicize love, sex and marriage? Who spent the past four decades proclaiming that "the personal is political," so that every office flirtation and every petty domestic quarrel is a federal civil rights violation? The damned feminists, that's who.

  Robert Stacy McCain

  Sex, Past, Men

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• In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

  George Weigel

  Issues, Rights, Views

  George Weigel (2002). “The Truth of Catholicism: Ten Controversies Explored”, p.164, Gracewing Publishing

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• Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious harmony as the white and colored people in America, to develop side by side in peace and mutual happiness, the peculiar contribution which each has to make to the culture of their common country.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Inspiring, Country, Religious

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays”, p.61, Oxford University Press

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• In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.

  Neal Boortz

  Rights, Civilization, White

  Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth about Liberals”, p.56, Rowman & Littlefield

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• No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.

  Paul Tsongas

  Spring, War, Rights

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• Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

  Roy Wilkins

  Black History, Way, Steps

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