Civil Rights Quotes

"A right delayed is a right denied." "Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress." "I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law." "Ask the SCLC about John Lewis and I'll tell you the story of how someone who not only served as the conscience of our country but literally shed his blood in the struggle for the soul of America" "We must commit to a future where everyone can succeed, no matter their race, religion, gender, or disability" "A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither." "In Republics the great danger is that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority" "That all men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain inherent rights of which when they enter into a state of society they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity" "I swear to the Lord I still can't see why Democracy means everybody but me" "The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted" "Women's rights are human rights and human rights are women's rights" "Freedom is something that dies unless it's used" "Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves" "Equal laws protecting equal rights the best guarantee of loyalty and love of country" "We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties"