“If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.” IfsHas BeensCountryRightsMovementRefuseCivil RightsParksBusHippieCivil Rights MovementNelsonRosaCivil Right Movement Author:Kinky Friedman
“When we use the term pig, for example, we are referring to the people who systematically violate the peoples' constitutional rights - whether they be monopoly capitalists or police. The term is now being adopted by radicals, hippies, and minority peoples. Even the workers, when the pigs supported strike-breakers like they did as Union Oil where 100 local police came in a cracked strikers' heads, began to call them by their true name.” PeopleUseNamesTermRightsExamplePoliceUnionsWorkersOilStrikesLocalsRadicalMinoritiesCapitalistPigsAdoptedMonopolyHippieCrackedReferringConstitutional RightsStrikersBeing Adopted Author:Bobby Seale
“It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.” DifficultRightsImportanceCivil RightsHippieCivil Rights ActCivil Rights Act Of 1964 Author:Bobby Scott
“They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.” WayLawRightsSpecialProtectCivil RightsHippie Author:Tom Allen
“There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.” YearsIssuesRightsLateCivil RightsHippieRushingRushing In Author:Hubert H. Humphrey