The words ‘bad timing’ came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning…they did not realize that it was ridiculous...

However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things,...

I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the rights of black people everywhere.

Initially, the purveyors of racism need no more than the silent acquiescence of the public … [I]t is never too soon to confront bigotry and racism whenever, wherever, and in whatever form it raises its...

The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.

Ours is a civil rights movement on the march,

You cannot stand for civil rights + not support gay marriage. You cannot stand for human rights + not support gay marriage. It’s that simple.Everywhere, the voice of the oppressed must echo + ring out...

Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?

Already the people murmur that I am your enemybecause they say that in verse I give the world your me.They lie, Julia de Burgos. They lie, Julia de Burgos.Who rises in my verses is not...

We are conducting a preliminary inquiry in an effort to determine whether there were any violations of federal civil rights committed at the facility.

Let me be me, or let me be.

He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

[Martin Luther King] said that little black boys and little black girls would be able to join hands with little white boys and little white girls as sisters and brothers. Then he reminded both those...

Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering...

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women’s rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women’s rights was added by a...

Democrats have been saying for years to their women’s rights and civil rights base: ‘Vote for us, and we’ll save the Supreme Court.’ Now, they have stepped back from using that power.

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...

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

One of them was convicted just three months ago. In all, 18 were tried. Seven were convicted of Civil Rights violations and got a few years. The others were acquitted.

Given a thimbleful of [dramatic] facts we rush to make generalizations as large as a tub.

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true.

Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.

If we are to violate the Constitution, will the people submit to our unauthorized acts? Sir, they ought not to submit; they would deserve the chains that these measures are forging for them. The country...

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it’s that the terrorists can attack us, but they can’t take away what makes us American — our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No,...

I see this as a civil rights issue. People who are gay have a right to be treated equally.

The judge is the last line of defense when other agencies are trying to crack down on people’s civil rights. It’s a welcomed ruling.

We were to write a short essay on one of the works we read in the course and relate it to our lives. I chose the “Allegory of the Cave” in Plato’s Republic. I compared...

If not us, then who?If not now, then when?

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

They have done what they set out to do … to engage the wider community in their fight for civil rights.

Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

While growing up, on the news every night was the war in Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement. We were all talking about what was happening when Kennedy got killed and King got killed. The...

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

There are no secrets on the Internet

Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn’t come through. It was...

Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free and we’re not. Guess who’s winning the “war on terror?

I, too, sing America.I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong.Tomorrow,I’ll be at the tableWhen company comes.Nobody’ll dareSay to me,”Eat in the kitchen,”Then.Besides,They’ll...

[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fields.”[Convention on the Elimination...

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and...

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Immigration is the No. 2 issue after civil rights. Civil rights right now is what’s keeping people from demonstrating.

In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

It was one of the main gripes of the early civil rights movement and the NAACP, … It was the major battle that they fought, because this was major propaganda.

Don’t rely on others to speak for you. It would be a miracle that anything got done in the world.

Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly...

Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes, we want to join with the...

really helped bail out the civil-rights movement.