Civil Rights Quotes

Young people don't know what it feels like to be in those kinds of struggles... I mean, they've got their own struggles, now -- lack of education, lack of opportunity, lack of respect. But in the civil rights movement, people were willing to die, get bitten by dogs, hosed. That was the difference. Our challenge is: How should the civil rights movement look in the 21st century? - Lennox Yearwood

You know how Coretta Scott King was the mother of the civil rights movement in the South? She was our Coretta Scott King. - Sonya Hope

You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand. - Alphonso Jackson

With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. - Edison Haines

Why should the victim who has never received a dime sit back while the civil rights violator gets his job and back pay? - Stephen Roach

Who will understand their key role in protecting our civil rights, who will recognize the significant impact of their decisions on our everyday lives. - Roderick Jackson

White civil rights organization. - David Duke

While it comes as no surprise that the nominee's views are different than ours, it is the seemingly extreme nature of those views, the degree of difference, that makes his candidacy unacceptable. Roberts has demonstrated a commitment to reversing the historic civil rights gains of the past 40 years. - Bruce Gordon

While growing up, on the news every night was the war in Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement. We were all talking about what was happening when Kennedy got killed and King got killed. The whole Watergate thing with Nixon was big. - Eugene Dial