426 Quotes About Civil-rights

Just because there is one bad apple in the barrow, does not mean all the apples are bad. If you dig into the barrow, it is guaranteed to have a few apples that are not spoiled.

Too few of us from the Black Power generation and the movements to take power in cities through the election of black elected officials have told our story. Hence there is very little understanding of the agenda for change we outlined for black people and America in the 1960s and early 1970s. We wanted self-determination, and end to racism, and economic security. It is an agenda that was never fulfilled, and hence the title of my book, Unfinished Agenda.

I had no way of predicting that Selma to Montgomery was indeed to be the last great civil rights march of the era, and that everything afterward would indeed by 'post-civil rights.

But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents taught us that in order to succeed, we 'had to be twice as good as white folks.' We were constantly being prepared to enter a world dominated by whites.

Black power showed up in different ways, depending on the goals of the group.

If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.

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 or else it will be crushed by the tyranny of wickedness.

Between George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the US Constitution is no longer worth the paper it's written on.

Your right to swing your arm leaves off where my right not to have my nose struck begins.