Quotes about Civil rights movement

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We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had cru — Marita Golden, Migrations of the Heart
We can’t answer King’s assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him. — Sammy Davis Jr.
Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murde — Martin Luther King Jr.
It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others. — DaShanne Stokes
Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all. — DaShanne Stokes
The minute we look away, the minute we stop fighting back, that's the minute bigotry wins. — DaShanne Stokes
Bigotry is based on deception, of oneself and of others. — DaShanne Stokes
Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression. — DaShanne Stokes
You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had. — DaShanne Stokes
Never be content to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon. Your rights could be next. — DaShanne Stokes
Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper. — A.E. Samaan, H.H. Laughlin: American Scientist, American Progressive, Nazi Collaborator
Racism is a disease of white people — Albert Einstein
We are captured, brother, surrounded by the majoritarian bandits of America. And this has happened here, in our only hom — Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me
And all Negroes at some period of their lives there is that yearning for a sense of group unity that is the yearning of — Ralph Ellison
We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no unif — Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were i — Martin Luther King Jr., Why We Can't Wait
The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement official — Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
But what's braver?' Emmanuel said. 'Naming the bigots and possibly being killed for it? Or living in silence in order to — Janelle Gray, Echoes of the Struggle
I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know — Endesha Ida Mae Holland, From the Mississippi Delta: A Memoir
[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimina — John Lewis, March: Book One