The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: activism creativity civil-rights-movement
Senator John Stennis:
The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.
Tags: politics civil-rights-movement
The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.
Timothy B. TysonTags: truth civil-rights-movement martin-luther-king-jr
For years, I declined to fill in the form for my Senate press credential that asked me to state my 'race,' unless I was permitted to put 'human.' The form had to be completed under penalty of perjury, so I could not in conscience put 'white,' which is not even a color let alone a 'race,' and I sternly declined to put 'Caucasian,' which is an exploded term from a discredited ethnology. Surely the essential and unarguable core of King's campaign was the insistence that pigmentation was a false measure: a false measure of mankind (yes, mankind) and an inheritance from a time of great ignorance and stupidity and cruelty, when one drop of blood could make you 'black.
Christopher HitchensTags: civil-rights-movement race sexism white-people martin-luther-king-jr perjury united-states-senate identity-politics skin-colour united-states-elections-2008 caucasian-race ethnology
It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.
Tariq AliTags: politics activism united-states protest civil-rights civil-rights-movement racism civil-disobedience 20th-century 2010
Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.
Margaret McMullanTags: civil-rights-movement young-adult-fiction mississippi
On Thursday morning, May 2, 1963, nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks woke up with freedom on her mind. But, before she could be free, there was something important she had to do. "I want to go to jail," Audrey had told her mother. Since Mr. and Mrs. Hendricks thought that was a good idea, they helped her get ready.
Cynthia LevinsonTags: civil-rights-movement birmingham
Violence never really deals with the basic evil of the situation. Violence may murder the murderer, but it doesn’t murder murder. Violence may murder the liar, but it doesn’t murder lie; it doesn’t establish truth. Violence may even murder the dishonest man, but it doesn’t murder dishonesty. Violence may go to the point of murdering the hater, but it doesn’t murder hate. It may increase hate. It is always a descending spiral leading nowhere. This is the ultimate weakness of violence: It multiplies evil and violence in the universe. It doesn’t solve any problems.
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: activism violence civil-rights-movement reform martin-luther-king-jr equal-rights
We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had crushed him. A constitution ignored, laws denied, these were the weapons. America pulled the trigger.
Marita GoldenTags: america civil-rights-movement martin-luther-king mlk-martin-luther-king
Judge Carter sat in stony silence, completely unmoved. At the end of the trial, he pronounced King guilty of conspiracy to violate the 1921 law and ordered him to pay a five-hundred-dollar fine or serve a year at hard labor. Like Judge Carter, the national newspaper and magazine reporters waiting outside for the ruling ignored the black women's testimonies that detailed decades of mistreatment and denied King's leadership in the boycott. Instead, the media turned King into an apostle of civil rights.
Danielle L. McGuireTags: civil-rights-movement martin-luther-king-jr
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