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.

Plus I have no doubt that their garden is also where my grandparents dreamed—for a better life of equality for their grandchildren and future generations. As people rooted in their faith, they probably did a...

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But...

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don’t care who reads them.

Only a “dry as dust” religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.

intent on reversing decades of policies on civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights, privacy and access to justice.

Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.