Top 1200 Rights Movement Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

The essence of globalization is a subordination of human rights, of labor rights, consumer, environmental rights, democracy rights, to the imperatives of global trade and investment.

I typically don't use the distinction 'positive' and 'negative' liberty, because negative sounds bad and positive sounds good, and I don't think that the terminology ought to prejudice us one way or the other. So I think the more descriptive term is 'liberty rights' versus 'welfare rights'. So, liberty rights are freedom-of-action type rights, and welfare rights are rights-to-stuff, of various kinds...And, property rights are not rights-to-stuff. I think that's one of the key misunderstandings about property. Property rights are the rights to liberty within your jurisdiction.

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

We live in the age of "Everything Has Rights." Now, I'm not denying that the concept of rights is valid, but I wonder ? whatever happened to obligations? One rarely hears the term anymore. Indeed, have you ever heard of a "human obligations movement?" ? The very ideal that holds a democracy together--the willingness to make personal sacrifice for the common good--is going quickly by the wayside.

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

Unfortunately, I have witnessed millions of children suffering from the deprivation of basic rights such as the rights to education, the rights to health and the rights to play.

True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

The world is littered with constitutions that have written guarantees of rights but that don't actually deliver rights. What differentiates the ones where rights are real from where rights are fake is that it's in the initial interests of the majority to actually deliver these rights.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.

I grew up in Illinois in an environment where my parents were very politically active in the civil rights movement.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time.

The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

There is a broad movement that has been holding companies accountable on human rights for a long time.

If you understand the Black Lives Matter movement, there's no central leadership of the movement. This is an organic, grassroots movement all around America.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

Movies are movement. A comic-book is immobility. From one still picture to another, but no movement. You need to make the movement in your head. In the movies, you see the movement. It's different. What is the same is the mind of the creator.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

This freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society, setting us apart. Like the right of assembly and the right of association, it often makes all other rights meaningful-knowing, studying, arguing, exploring, conversing, observing and even thinking. Once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer, just as when curfew or home detention is placed on a person.

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a law of nature. That's what Latin American bishops were doing when they formed base communities. They were trying to get peasants to recognize that you can take your fate into your own hands. That's what the civil-rights movement did here. That's what the women's movement did.

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change.

Yes, the '60s went too far, but we were trying to find new ways, better ways, to do things. And great seeds were planted: civil rights, the peace movement, the environmental movement, feminism. They're big seeds. They take a long time to come to fruition. Please, let's stop fighting, and get out our water cans.

Young people, throughout history, have always been the lifeblood of every movement for civil and human rights.

We need to fight for a new human rights movement that recognizes and values black life.

What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a "real" America, one which predates globalization, immigration, feminism, the civil rights movement and technological change, an imaginary 1950s to which we can now return. That is actually not very different from the kind of language that Marine Le Pen uses, or parts of the Brexit movement.

You don't know who the next group is that's unpopular. The Bill of Rights isn't for the prom queen. The bill of rights isn't for the high school quarterback. The Bill of Rights is for the least among us. The Bill of Rights is for minorities. The Bill of Rights is for those who have minority opinions.

I am a men's liberationist (or "masculist") when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, "we deserve rights." That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

The pictorial work was born of movement, is itself recorded movement, and is assimilated through movement (eye muscles).

Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.

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

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

I think fundamentally, the real power behind the anti-choice movement in regard to abortion and the opposition to the rights of LGBT Americans is fundamentally religious. I know that there are people who are secularists who have problems with the rights of gay people and problems with reproductive choice, but frankly those people are few in number.

In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

There is movement and movement. There are movements of small tension and movements of great tension and there is also a movement which our eyes cannot catch although it can be felt. In art this state is called dynamic movement.

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where the elites call the shots. Inside accounts reveal the extent to which Johnson and Nixon's conduct of the Vietnam War was constrained by the huge anti-war movement. It was the civil rights movement, not compelling arguments, that convinced members of Congress to end legal racial discrimination.

I recognize no rights but human rights - I know nothing of men's rights and women's rights.

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth.

I think in a society where you can't even pass the Equal Rights Amendment, it's very difficult to women make a progress. Incidentally, we are exactly 160 years after the very first women's public rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York, when a handful of women started it all and began the movement to make women equal.

My elections are really not about campaigns. I tell my people that these are about a movement. And a movement to do what? To restore common sense. A movement to do things like provide economic growth. And a movement not to let anybody be behind.

The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.

The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'