Civil And Political Rights
Quotes & Thinkers in Civil And Political Rights
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🇺🇸Yuri Kochiyama
Social Activism
1921–2014
3 quotes
🇬🇭W. E. B. Du Bois
Social Activism
1868–1963
"There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know."
55 quotes
🇺🇸Greg Lukianoff
Law
b. 1974
1 quotes
🇺🇸Thurgood Marshall
Law
1908–1993
"here's no difference between a white snake and a black snake. They'll both bite."
8 quotes
🇺🇸Rosa Parks
Social Activism
1913–2005
"From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh."
13 quotes
🇺🇸Langston Hughes
Literature
Harlem Renaissance
1901–1967
"Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,Help us to seeThat without the dust the rainbowWould not be."
12 quotes
🇺🇸Dick Gregory
Entertainment
1932–2017
"I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that."
6 quotes
🇺🇸John Lewis (philosopher)
Social Activism
1940–2020
1 quotes
🇺🇸John Lewis
Social Activism
1940–2020
"I have been in some kind of fight – for freedom, equality, basic human rights – for nearly my entire life. I have never faced a fight quite like the one I have now."
16 quotes
🇺🇸Pauli Murray
Social Activism
1910–1985
"I have accepted the challenge of being a Negro in America and of being an American first."
3 quotes