“I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one of my friends made a racist joke and another said, 'Hey man, we don't go for that anymore.'” MenMadeSaidRememberBoysRightsConversationJokesMy FriendsSouthCivil RightsHeyRacistRacist Jokes Author:Al Gore
“In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.” PeopleLittlesBlackWhiteDemocracyRightsMovementCivilizationMajorityPropertySouthCivil RightsMinoritiesRelativeCivil Rights MovementNo RespectCivil Rights Act Book:The Terrible Truth about Liberals Source: The Terrible Truth about Liberals
“I come out of the environment of the Deep South, where I had seen the millstone of racial discrimination weighting down my people, both the black people and the white people; and I had seen the enormous progress that we were able to make after we removed the legal restraints of a two-class society, with the whites superior and blacks inferior. So I was very convinced before I became President that basic human rights, equality of opportunity, the end of abuse by governments of their people, was a basic principle on which the United States should be an acknowledged champion.” PeopleShouldHumansTwoEndsStatesGovernmentAbleOpportunityBlackPresidentWhiteUnitedClassPrinciplesUnited StatesEnvironmentRightsProgressAbuseSouthHuman RightsConvincedEnormousDiscriminationSuperiorsChampionBlack PeopleInferiorsRestraintBasic PrinciplesRacial DiscriminationEquality Of OpportunityBasic Human Rights Author:Jimmy Carter
“I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared to death, marching against the KKK in South Georgia. And I have never stopped marching in protests since. Not ever. I mean, LGBT rights, women's rights, the rights of people of color... I'm your guy. I'm going to be out there marching!” PeopleYearsFirstsMeanLittlesKidsGuyRightsColorSouthScaredCivil RightsProtestLgbtWomens RightsSkinnyGeorgiaKkk Author:Pauley Perrette
“Let no one doubt, we will defend America's security and the cause of freedom around the world. But we want a president who tells us what America is fighting for, not just what we are fighting against. We want a president who will defend human rights - not just where it is convenient - but wherever freedom is at risk - from Chile to Afghanistan, from Poland to South Africa” WorldWantHumansAmericaFightingCausesPresidentDoubtRightsRiskSecuritySouthHuman RightsAround The WorldAfghanistanSouth AfricaConvenientPolandChile Author:Geraldine Ferraro
“Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.” PeopleMovingBlackChurchStruggleRightsMovementSouthCivil RightsBeatenCivil Rights MovementCivil Right MovementBlack Church Author:Noam Chomsky
“The time will come when the Negro in the South will be accorded all the political rights which his ability, character, and material possessions entitle him to.” CharacterPoliticalAbilityRightsMaterialsSouthPossessionMaterial PossessionsPolitical Rights Book:A Will to Be Free Source: A Will to Be Free
“You know, civil rights is great and everything, but a lot of people don't realize that plumbers in the South make less money than when they used to install separate drinking fountains.” PeopleKnowsUsedRealizingRightsDrinkingSouthCivil RightsFountainPlumber Author:Andy Kindler
“Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette.” ChristianCitiesRightsWorshipSouthJewPeacefulHillsDeniedAssemblyOaksCarolinaKansasSouth CarolinaChapelCreeksKansas CityAuroraCharlestonLafayetteChapel HillCharleston South Carolina Author:Barack Obama
“Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.” MatterBlackIssuesRightsFrontsMovementPoliceSouthCivil RightsShootingBlack Lives MatterCarolinaSouth CarolinaBlack Lives Author:Ari Shapiro
“Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy on civil rights, the Democratic Party was the party of the old solid South. All of the racists, all of the Cottonhead Smith types and so on were Democrats, allies of Franklin Roosevelt - because of their seniority - of all the major committees of the Congress.” WellsRememberPartyRightsPolicyTypeMajorsDemocraticDemocratSouthCongressCivil RightsRacistAlliesCommitteesDemocratic PartyFranklinSeniority Author:William A. Rusher
“Even in South Carolina, as badly as we did, and we did very badly, we won the votes of people 29 years of age or younger. The future of the Democratic Party, the future of this country is involving young people in the political process, getting them to stand up for their rights.” PeopleYearsCountryAgeYoungPoliticalProcessPartyRightsVoteDemocraticSouthDemocratic PartyInvolvingCarolinaSouth Carolina Author:Bernie Sanders
“I`ve never been a passive political supporter. My grandmother, Betty Kleitz , god bless her soul, was from Tuskegee, Alabama, took parts in the civil rights movement and after that became of course like a lot of blacks in the South a staunch Democrat.” SoulPoliticalCoursesRightsMovementDemocratSouthCivil RightsGrandmotherBlessPassiveSupporterMy GrandmotherCivil Rights MovementGod BlessAlabama Author:Killer Mike