Civil Rights Quotes - Page 2

I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.

I think I came here as a priest... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must be eliminated.

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

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.

When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything.

There was no miracle that night.

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

The advent of the civil rights movement during the 50s and 60s made it very plain crystal clear to me that we had an obligation to do what we could to make real the Constitution of the United States of America.

If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.

Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist.

I was involved in the civil rights movement way back in the late '50s and through the '60s and '70s. I was doing a civil rights musical here in Los Angeles and we sang at one of the rallies where Dr. Martin Luther King spoke, and I remember the thrill I felt when we were introduced to him. To have him shake your hand was an absolutely unforgettable experience. Even before I could vote, I was involved in the political arena.

We cannot sit around and talk about the beloved community.

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.