Civil rights quotes

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◆ Every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunities, equal dignity. Without discrimination, regardless of race, sex, religion, sexual preference or social status. When you were born, you were born with the same human rights as everyone else. You have the right to live, you were born free and equal to have freedom and choice of your religion and the freedom of expression. All men and women are created equal...

- Blood On The Dance Floor100

◆ Activism is my rent for living on this planet.

- Alice Walker99

◆ Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face

- Lyndon B Johnson99

◆ Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights

- Bob Marley99

◆ With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation.

- Edison Haines99

◆ From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

- Carl Schurz99

◆ A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.

- A Philip Randolph99

◆ The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to "create" rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

- William J Brennan Jr99

◆ In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

- John Fitzgerald Kennedy99

◆ To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

- Abraham Lincoln99

◆ No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

- John F Kennedy99

◆ Evil societies always kill their consciences.

- James L Farmer Jr99

◆ All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.

- Thomas Jefferson99

◆ Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the sc

- Eleanor Roosevelt99