Top Civil Rights Quotes

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

The most important gift you can give your children is the importance of standing up to injustice. Children will remember moments spent with you. However, it isn't togetherness that creates humane pare...

Righteous indignation calls sin what it is. Bigotry is sin. Racism is sin. Oppression is sin. Control by fear is sin. Violence is sin. The quicker we can all admit that, the quicker the healing will b...

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with sol...

What if racism is so perfect, it made you believe the boycotting and peaceful protests of the civil rights movement actually changed policies, but in actuality policies were gonna change anyway."Hell,...

It's terrifying to think you could become the next statistic.

Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.

Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.

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

Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next.

I feel that for white America to understand the significance of the problem of the Negro will take a bigger and tougher America than any we have yet known. I feel that America's past is too shallow, h...

Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them.

The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins.

If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.

The "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness" begins with "life", and "life" begins at conception.

People often call fighting discrimination being 'PC' because they don't want their own unearned privileges challenged.

The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a few ounces of marijuana in their jeans simply makes no sense - the kindest way...