Civil Rights Quotes - Page 3

What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So part of it, he's paying homage to this tradition that you can tell serious stories and talk about serious issues in graphic form.

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.

If you can't find anybody else, then I'll go. So, they couldn't find anybody else. So, I went.

I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.

My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone.

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.

Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.

In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

Food is an important lens onto the civil rights movement. One of the central issues of the movement was the right to eat in places that served the public. This battle led to the lunch counter sit-ins, which became embattled, contested places.

Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

One wonders if Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's administrations may come to be viewed, in the future, as having been underestimated in some respects. To be sure, each ended in failure. Nonetheless, Johnson's accomplishments in civil rights and immigration legislation, and Nixon's in respect to relations with China, may loom larger with the passage of time.

That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

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.