We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.
I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.
We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
I would not open windows into men's souls.
It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation
Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.
Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.
If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.
It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the First Amendment.
Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.
Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.
You can't put civil rights on the ballot.
ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.
NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds.
In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.
There's a pattern of the pathway opening in a certain way. We stared thinking, there's so many wonderful films about civil rights movements, but there isn't even one yet about the women's movement? It's hard to capture because it's so sprawling, and it's an ideology.
When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.
The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.
That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.
There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.
The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.
Evil societies always kill their consciences.
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement.
I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.
Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.
Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.
My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or we don't. It's for everyone.
Where does a black soul go to rest?
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.
Being able to laugh got me through.
Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back
Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.
Would America have been America without her Negro people?
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.
In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by....
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march...
Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.
Without justice, there can be no peace.
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything. You have yours and you control yours; we have ours and we control ours.
There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.
The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.
Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.
Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker, in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle.
The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.
The true foundation of republican government is the equal right of every citizen in his person and property and in their management.
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.
I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.
The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.
Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.
I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.