Quotes about Civil rights
The American white man has so thoroughly brainwashed the black man to see himself as only a domestic "civil rights" problem that it will probably take longer than I live before the Negro sees that the struggle of the American black man is international.
— Malcolm X
the numbers game was referred to by the white racketeers as "nigger pool.
— Malcolm X
Transgender discrimination is the civil rights issue of our time
— Joe Biden
The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.
— Mahatma Gandhi
It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.
— Marianne Williamson
I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
— Jimmy Carter
When sins become civil rights, there is a temptation for Christians to keep our mouths shut and turn what is supposed to be a public faith into a private faith, but we are commanded to not be ashamed of the gospel.
— Mark Driscoll
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
My father's leadership was about more than civil rights. He was deeply concerned with human rights and world peace, and he said so on numerous occasions. He was a civil rights leader, true. But he was increasingly focused on human rights and a global concern and peace as an imperative.
— Martin Luther King III
I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'
— Al Gore
One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.