Civil Rights Quotes

"The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the definitions of the white world." "Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains" "But race is the child of racism, not the father" "I have always been driven by the idea of equality for everyone." "Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once." "I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights." "America never was America to me." "The identity of the Negro in this country is a social and political and moral crucifixion which you would find very difficult to gaze at." "The true republic: men, their rights and nothing more; women, their rights and nothing less" "Suffrage is the pivotal right" "We ask only for justice and equal rights—the right to vote the right to labor the right to serve as jurors and then the judgment of our peers" "I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen " "I, too, sing America " "Montage of a Dream Deferred " "There is no moral obligation to accept oppression, humiliation, and exclusion as our lot in life"