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Because I’m a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes the same pain, the same spilling of blood, the same stench of death, the same arrogant, cruel and vicious taking of life. We shouldn’t be a part of it  (Civil Rights Quotes) Justice is indivisible. You can’t decide who gets civil rights and who doesn’t  (Civil Rights Quotes) The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil liberties in the world aren’t worth a dime  (Civil Rights Quotes) Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown  (Civil Rights Quotes) A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist  (Civil Rights Quotes) There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts  (Civil Rights Quotes) For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights  (Civil Rights Quotes) Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in  (Civil Rights Quotes) It’s appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes of other human beings  (Civil Rights Quotes) I am above eighty years old... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for the rights of the colored women. I want to keep the thing stirring, now that the ice is cracked  (Civil Rights Quotes) A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer. It’s the civil rights of our day. It’s the issue of our day  (Civil Rights Quotes) I’ve never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen  (Civil Rights Quotes) If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they’re not. They’re not offering a solution  (Civil Rights Quotes) Well, it’s the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?  (Civil Rights Quotes) Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights  (Civil Rights Quotes) The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic  (Civil Rights Quotes) Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love  (Civil Rights Quotes) Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others  (Civil Rights Quotes) No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for  (Civil Rights Quotes) We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color  (Civil Rights Quotes) Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane  (Civil Rights Quotes) ... we ain’t doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen  (Civil Rights Quotes) I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another  (Civil Rights Quotes) Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry  (Civil Rights Quotes) To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize  (Civil Rights Quotes) I speak not for myself but for those without voice... those who have fought for their rights... their right to live in peace, their right to be treated with dignity, their right to equality of opportunity, their right to be educated  (Civil Rights Quotes) We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody’s civil rights to say whatever he pleases  (Civil Rights Quotes) It’s time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be  (Civil Rights Quotes) The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future  (Civil Rights Quotes) As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive  (Civil Rights Quotes)
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