Civil-rights-movement Quotes

For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my '...

Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. .....

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and...

Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, ...

The amazing aftermath of Birmingham, the sweeping Negro Revolution, revealed to people all over the ...

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whis...

We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but it...

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used ...

If you’re not angry, you’re either a stone, or you’re too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You...

The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law ...

And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that...

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of ...

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out o...

Racism is a disease of white people