Civil Rights Quotes - Page 37

• Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.

  Tom Wicker

  Character, Men, Rights

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• When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from hiding and use the word 'I' carried a lot of fright for me.

  Lawrence Wright

  Nashville, Rights, Race

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• One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on abortion, birth control, divorce and remarriage, civil rights or social justice.

  William P. Leahy

  Divorce, Rights, Issues

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• Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Children, Rights, Shopping

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• For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

  Jennifer Chiaverini

  Issues, Rights, Long

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• Black community, I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves.

  Kerry Washington

  Moving, Believe, Thinking

  "Life is Hot for Kerry Washington". Interview with Clay Cane, www.bet.com. September 15, 2010.

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• I think that the most effective social protest that any artist can do would be things that come naturally and feel obvious. I think the Resist movement will continue among people who believe in science, who believe in rights for women, who believe in civil rights.

  John Flansburgh

  Believe, Artist, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• The things I really cared about - poverty, the Great Society, civil rights - were all being drained away by the Vietnam War. The line that keeps running through my mind is the line I never spoke: "I can't speak for a war that I believe is immoral."

  Bill Moyers

  Running, War, Believe

  Source: progressive.org

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• The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the civil rights movement when I was a young boy in the South, the women's suffrage movement when my mother was a young woman in Tennessee, the abolition movement much farther back, and the anti-apartheid movement when I was in the House of Representatives. All of these movements have one thing in common: the opposition to progress was rooted in an outdated understanding of morality.

  Al Gore

  Mother, Gay, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Rights, Black, Sound

  "Hot Tracks: Gary Clark Jr". Interview with Lisa Robinson, www.vanityfair.com. December 2012.

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• Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.

  Janis Ian

  Gay, Rights, People

  "Janis Ian Talks About Her Grammy Nomination and LGBT Issues". Interview with Charlotte Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 10, 2013.

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• My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

  Janis Ian

  Rights, Parent, Movement

  "Janis Ian's Controversial 'Society's Child'". "News and Notes" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. March 2, 2009.

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• [Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal these state laws, but failed. So they appealed to the federal government, which responded with the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But this federal law didn't simply repeal state laws compelling segregation. It also prohibited voluntary segregation. What had been mandatory became forbidden. Neither before nor after the Civil Rights Act were people free to make their own decisions about who they associated with.

  Harry Browne

  Law, Rights, Race

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• Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage equality to the forefront of our struggle for civil rights. He is a courageous pioneer who has been relentless in this battle for marriage equality.

  David Mixner

  Struggle, Issues, Rights

  "Interview with Evan Wolfson: Marriage Equality and the Presidential Election" by David Mixner, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 17, 2007.

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• I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

  Jello Biafra

  Rights, Issues, Feelings

  Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. April 9, 1997.

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• If Barack Obama believes there are no victims in U.S, then I assume he'll shut down all the civil rights offices throughout the federal government, starting with the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. If there are no victims, all affirmative action laws will immediately be repealed. Same thing for equity in pay.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Believe, Justice, Office

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'

  Al Gore

  Men, Boys, Racist Jokes

  "Al Gore explains why he’s optimistic about stopping global warming". Interview with Ezra Klein, www.washingtonpost.com. August 21, 2013.

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• It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

  Allen West

  Rights, Legislation, Democrat

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• There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

  Bayard Rustin

  Strong, Rights, Movement

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make links to international struggles for civil rights.

  Emily Raboteau

  Struggle, Thinking, Individual

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Persistence. Change doesn't happen overnight. You have to stay with it. Rosa Parks helped start the Civil Rights movement in earnest in 1955. Then it was nearly a decade until the Civil Rights Act was passed.

  Kabir Sehgal

  Persistence, Rights, Movement

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• O.J. Simpson was primarily interested in O.J. His rise to fame in the late '60s coincided with the period where black athletes were more outspoken and political than in any era. You're talking about the generation of black athletes that came about after Jackie Robinson. Athletes after that were just happy to find a place in sports. But when you got to the mid-'60s, you had athletes like Jim Brown and Muhammad Ali, who were very outspoken on the issues of race and civil rights.

  Ezra Edelman

  Sports, Athlete, Political

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant was that this really was a very fervent kind of civil rights art course, not altogether art history. It wasn't altogether theory. She called it an action course.

  David C. Driskell

  Art, Teaching, Rights

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We have to help decision makers realize that women's reproductive health rights are civil rights and that women need to be free to make the same decisions that men are free to make with regard to health care and whether and when to have a family. It's going to be increasingly important for women to speak up not only about being able to make our own decisions, but also about the importance of being trusted to make our own decisions.

  Maggie Hassan

  Men, Decision, Important

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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