Famous quotes containing the words civil, rights and/or movement:
“Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services listthe common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation.”
—Karl Marx (18181883)
“... the Black woman in America can justly be described as a slave of a slave.”
—Frances Beale, African American feminist and civil rights activist. The Black Woman, ch. 14 (1970)
“Women who assume authority are unnatural. Unnatural women are lesbians. Therefore all the leaders of the womens movement were presumed to be lesbians.”
—Jane OReilly, U.S. feminist and humorist. The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 8 (1980)