Civil Rights Quotes - Page 35

• The only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war. Where's his dream now? When is a change going to come - as Sam Cooke said - for blacks in America? Anyone who does tell the truth gets a bullet in the head, y'know what I mean?

  Shane MacGowan

  Dream, Kings, War

  Source: shanemacgowan.com

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• Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.

  Benjamin Jealous

  Rights, Government

  "NAACP Endorses Same-sex Marriage" By Jason Donner, www.foxnews.com. May 21, 2012.

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• You need to fight cases in the courts, but you certainly cannot rely on the courts, you need to testify in Congress and lobby your Congress person, but you certainly cannot rely on Congress. You need to speak out in the media, but you cannot totally trust the media either. You need to work within the academy because that's an influential opinion body. I think that one of the lessons that people have learned in the civil rights community is that it is generally not enough to focus on litigation in the courts.

  David D. Cole

  Fighting, Thinking, People

  Islamica Magazine Interview, www.theislamicmonthly.com. July 2, 2006.

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• Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn't be a part of it.

  Dick Gregory

  Pain, Animal, Rights

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• Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

  Iris Chang

  Country, Struggle, Rights

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• NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

  Newt Gingrich

  Bizarre, Misuse, Taxes

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• ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

  Newt Gingrich

  Eccentric, Destructive

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• In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would
  make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil
  rights.

  Julius Nyerere

  Believe, Men, Rights

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• We don't want to blame the victim. The civil rights movement had a profound effect on the United States and on the American mind, maybe unique in the world. Once we realized how victimized people of color had been, an honest empathy went out and that's how we got civil rights legislation.

  Jerome Kagan

  Unique, People, Profound

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I have written 13 books, full of my ideas about a variety of issues - from black women, to hip-hop culture, to the civil rights struggle. Even when I address such figures as Tupac Shakur and Bill Cosby, my ideas are quite evident.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Struggle, Book, Black

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• A lot of it was, you know, you look for moments where, for instance, we were dependent on Abraham Lincoln making sure that the slaves were freed or John Kennedy bringing civil rights, or the first one I wrote about, George Washington trying to stop the British from invading and ending this country before it even began. Those were turning points where, if you had not had a president stepping up to the plate, if there wasn't a story like that, we would not be here.

  Michael Beschloss

  Country, Trying, President

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• I was morose that the Era of Barack Obama has returned us to a period where everything is racist, everyone is walking on eggshells, and you get the moral preening from white liberals who don't actually even know any black people. But, oh, do they love to get on their high horses and accuse Republicans of being racist for opposing very liberal government policies and a very liberal Democratic president. It's an extension of the civil rights label being slapped on gay marriage and abortion. Allow me to be bi-partisan for a moment, and love this moment because it won't last long.

  Ann Coulter

  Horse, Gay, Long

  Source: aalbc.com

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• The Democrats pretended to care about black people for about five minutes to help their electoral process, and then civil rights suddenly became abortion on demand, gay marriage, rights for the homeless, etc.

  Ann Coulter

  Gay, People, Abortion

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Liberals say this over and over and over again to hide the actual history, which is why I go through the specifics on the big segregationists in the United States Senate, the ones who signed the Southern Manifesto and the ones who voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. There's a panoply of issues to consider. The first time they objected to the Federal government doing something was when it came to civil rights legislation. This is in stark contrast to the very few Republicans who voted against the '64 Civil Rights Act.

  Ann Coulter

  Southern, Republican, First Time

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer than most other Americans with the possible exception of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. The first blacks in Congress and the first black Governor were all Republicans. It was Republicans who fought the Civil War over slavery and who introduced the Civil Rights legislation over the next hundred years.

  Ann Coulter

  War, Black, Slavery

  Source: aalbc.com

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• You have to have a multipronged approach and a significant part of that is educating the public and change the culture so that people are less afraid of Arabs or Muslims, more attuned to civil rights and civil liberties issues that are presented, more aware of the security costs of some of the kinds of choices the Bush administration had made, and more committed to the values that America was founded upon.

  David D. Cole

  People, Choices, Liberty

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• Education is the civil rights issue of our generation.

  Arne Duncan

  Rights, Our Generation, Issues

  CFR meeting, a conversation with Arne Duncan, www.cfr.org. October 19, 2010.

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• Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

  Octavia Spencer

  Rights, Parent, Generations

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• They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood. And the FBI head, Hoover, admits that they know who did it, they've known ever since it happened, and they've done nothing about it. Civil rights bill down the drain.

  Malcolm X

  Rights, Blood, Done

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• We need to talk with each other, honestly, simply, caringly.

  Paul Kivel

  Needs, Honestly

  Paul Kivel (2013). “Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice Ð 3rd Edition”, p.2, New Society Publishers

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• The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Fire, Liberty

  Schenck v. United States (1919).

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• The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  America, Rights, Movement

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• I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you are if you happen to be a white person. Because he has trampled on people's civil rights.

  Lynn Samuels

  Thinking, Rights, White

  "Supreme Injustice? Revisiting Election 2000". "CNN The Point with Greta Van Susteren", www.cnn.com. June 19, 2001.

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• My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the base for the work I was doing in the civil rights and anti-war movement.

  Joan Halifax

  War, Buddhism, Rights

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• The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

  Fredric Wertham

  Rights, Achievement, Movement

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