100 Quotes About Civil-rights-movement

To those who have said, 'Be patient and wait,' we have long said we CANNOT be patient. We do NOT want our freedom gradually, but we want to be FREE NOW!

In the South, we knew our adversary would stop at nothing to silence our activism. We knew we could never match his readiness to annihilate our resistance. So we ceded him that ground and challenged him instead to defend himself against the work of loving peace.

Bigotry lives not just in our words, but in our actions, thoughts, and institutions.

Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.

Violence does beget violence, but the opposite is also true. Fury spends itself pretty quickly when there's no fury facing it.

Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others.

Mrs. (Fanie Lou) Hamer, like her mother, also kept weapons nearby in case she needed them: 'I keep a shotgun in every corner of my bedroom & the first cracker even looks like he wants to throw some dynamite on my porch won't write his mama again.

We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.