Greatest Civil Rights Quotes

#1. In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality ... it is a civil rights issue, arguably the greatest civil rights issue of our time.

George Weigel

#2. It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.

Yvette Clarke

#3. Grammar has qualities, shapes and forms.

Frederick Lenz

#4. The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.

Septima Poinsette Clark

#5. the only things that really matter in this world are the relationships you have with the people you love, and the meaningful things that you do. Haters don't fit anywhere into that. Don't devote any mental space to them.

James Altucher

#6. Make use of your friends by being of use to them.

Benjamin Franklin

#7. I would rather die because I betrayed them that live because I betrayed you

Marissa Meyer

#8. Be in love with your heart-life.
There, only there,
Is the flood of happiness.

Sri Chinmoy

#9. Orchestras have often been used to conjure up the natural world: Swans, sharks, trout, but not, as far as I know, the often maligned jellyfish.

Bill Bailey

#10. Do this: hate him for me after I die. I beg you. Dying request.

David Foster Wallace

#11. I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about civil rights. There is a role for the journalist-advocate. And as long as you play your cards on the table, I think that's a role that we should allow.

Pete Earley

#12. I do not think that war is always wrong: sometimes it is necessary to stop a dictator, prevent massive human-rights abuses, or expel an invader. But I have also seen that in the modern world, civil wars are the greatest threat to humanitarian security.

Jonathan Powell

#13. The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

Fredric Wertham

#14. I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

Caroline Kennedy

#15. The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

Bell Hooks

#16. Today the economic development of Armenia is as important as victory in the war was yesterday. Our battle has moved from the field of blood and heroism, to the economic field.

Vazgen Sargsyan

#17. And I have the strongest feeling that having part of you is going to be better than having all of anybody else.

Leisa Rayven

#18. I think that I always thought that if my uncle was on Broadway, then I must inherently have a good voice. I don't think that for a while I did. Eventually, out of sheer will of never wanting to get a job or go to college, I found my way into doing music full-time.

Nate Ruess

#19. Botswana was rich in diamonds, Ghana in cocoa and gold, Morocco in phosphates. There were many countries I was eager to visit and revisit, such as Zambia, with its emeralds and copper, and Cameroon, awash in oil. I could not wait to visit

Jim Rogers

#20. Impression without expression causes depression. Study without service leads to spiritual stagnation.

Rick Warren

#21. The third millennium is the third day in the calendar of God's time.

Sunday Adelaja

#22. Brothers, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in evil, but in your thinking be mature. (1 Cor. 14:20)

Matt Chandler