Civil Rights Movement Quotes

People believe what they want to believe. Even if it isn’t true.

~ Julian Houston

The time is always right to do the right thing.

~ Dr. Martin Luther King

She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if I wasn't standing smack-dab in the middle of the library, I wouldn't be wearing shoes.

~ Augusta Scattergood

I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.

~ Augusta Scattergood

For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.

~ Augusta Scattergood

You don't have to stand up for your rights to get justice, sometimes you can sit for your rights like Rosa Parks.

~ Harmon Okinyo

If you’re not angry, you’re either a stone, or you’re too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger, yes. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

~ Maya Angelou

I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.

~ Allan Dare Pearce

The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It operated from the inside through self-hate and self-doubt, and from the outside through the police, carnivorous landlords, and the welfare system.

~ Junius Williams