Civil Rights Museum

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

    “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]t is a civil Cowardice to be backward in asserting what you ought to expect, as it is a military Fear to be slow in attacking when it is your Duty.”
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)

    “The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.”
    —Emma Goldman (1869–1940)

    “Things will not mourn you, people will.”
    —Hawaiian saying no. 191, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)