426 Quotes About Civil-rights

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.

There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.

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

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

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.

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.