Civil Rights Quotes

"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less." "When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will" "Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth." "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves." "Human rights are women's rights and women's rights are human rights once and for all" "The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation" "You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom" "Every person living in a country should have the same freedom." "Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights." "There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice but there must never be a time when we fail to protest" "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today." "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants" "Here are additional famous quotes by Malcolm X:" "The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened" "To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time" "We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?" "I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery" "If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent, we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter" "I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over."