Top Civil Rights Quotes

A voteless people is a hopeless people.

Privilege doesn't just insulate people from the consequences of their prejudice, it cuts them off from their humanity.

Capitalism is not a form of government. Capitalism is a symptom of freedom. It is the result of individual rights, which include property rights.

Negro poverty is not white poverty. Many of its causes and many of its cures are the same. But there are differences - deep, corrosive, obstinate differences - radiating painful roots into the communi...

Sixty millions of whites are in no danger from the presence here of eight millions of blacks. The destinies of the two races, in this country, are indissolubly linked together, and the interests of bo...

Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform the world.

Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.

Racist legacy laws and modern racist practices are all part of the same system, and it needs to be changed now.

The price of conviction has never been cheap, but it will always be worth it.

You can either have individual liberty, or dependence on the government. One is designed to undo the other.

I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.

How can you render the duties of justice to men when you're afraid they'll be so unaware of justice they may destroy you? ...especially since their attitude toward their own race is a destructive one.

Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen.

A man with a rifle or a club can only be stopped by a person who defends himself with a rifle or a club. That's equality. If the United States government doesn't want you and me to have rifles, then t...

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...

The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

This is the next and the more profound stage of the battle for civil rights. We seek not just freedom but opportunity. We seek not just legal equity but human ability, not just equality as a right and...

For this is your home, my friend, do not be driven from it; great men have done great things here, and will again, and we can make America what America must become. It will be hard, James, but you com...

People with disabilities should not be considered as unadvataged because they can have high self esteem as others to fulfill their potential. People should be aware that a disability is something that...

Self defense is the inherent right of an individual to repel any unwarranted attack. Governments are not individuals and should not have the power to restrict or invalidate a person's ability to defen...