African-american Civil Rights Movement 1955%e2%80%931968

Famous quotes containing the words civil, rights and/or movement:

    What I fear is being in the presence of evil and doing nothing. I fear that more than death.
    Otilia De Koster, Panamanian civil rights monitor. As quoted in Newsweek magazine, p. 15 (December 19, 1988)

    ...I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognise.
    Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)

    I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.
    Nora Ephron (b. 1941)