Civil Rights League

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

    “Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.”
    —Letty Cottin Pogrebin (b. 1939)

    “... though mathematics may teach a man how to build a bridge, it is what the Scotch Universities call the humanities, that teach him to be civil and sweet-tempered.”
    —Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)

    “When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law?”
    —Benjamin Harrison (1833–1901)

    “We’re the victims of a disease called social prejudice, my child. These dear ladies of the law and order league are scouring out the dregs of the town. C’mon be a glorified wreck like me.”
    —Dudley Nichols (1895–1960)