Quotes about Civil rights

Just as it is the duty of all men to obey just laws, so it is the duty of all men to disobey unjust laws.

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time.

To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary.

It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence.

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.