Quotes on Civil rights

We support President Truman's civil rights program.

Author: Eugenie Anderson

It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.

Author: Joe Baca

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

Author: Mary Berry

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

Author: Stokely Carmichael

Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.

Author: Iris Chang

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

Author: Sammy Davis, Jr.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.

Author: Morris Dees

The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we have to ask how can we broaden the view.

Author: Paul Farmer

Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists.

Author: Jim Gerlach

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

Author: Danny Glover

Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.

Author: Henry Hampton

The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

Author: John Harlan

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

Author: David Harris

When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?

Author: Benjamin Harrison

There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to move for our civil rights to have them taken away in these kinds of fashions.

Author: Dorothy Height

There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.

Author: Hubert Humphrey

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.

Author: Moshe Katsav

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

Author: Bernice Reagon

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.

Author: Bernice Reagon

I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.

Author: Joseph Stiglitz

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.

Author: Lyman Trumbull

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

Author: Ida Wells

When the world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

Author: Malala Yousafzai