This collection holds 565 civil rights quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Ed King, Toni Morrison and Mike Cernovich.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

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There was no miracle that night.

Being able to laugh got me through.

Civil rights cases are hard to win.

Psychologically, I'm a Roman Baptist.

Without justice, there can be no peace.

You can't put civil rights on the ballot.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

ACLU has become eccentric and destructive.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

Evil societies always kill their consciences.

Diversity in books is a civil rights frontier.

The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

We support President Truman's civil rights program.

We have to "walk the walk" not just "talk the talk".

I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

We wanted black power to be all things to all people.

My grandfather James Peck was a civil rights activist.

I see education in the U.K. as a civil rights struggle.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?

We must remember that a right lost to one is lost to all.

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

Lethargy is the forerunner of death to the public liberty.

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.

We have a fabulous civil rights history here in Birmingham.

It's not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

As far as I am concerned, freedom summer never really ended.

School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.

My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

There's a long bipartisan tradition of civil rights enforcement.

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.

I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.

The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.

The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.

When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.

Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.

After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.

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