It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.
Ayaan Hirsi AliTags: freedom civil-rights self-expression
For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and homophobia are real conditions of all our lives in this place and time. I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives here. See whose face it wears. Then the personal as the political can begin to illuminate all our choices.
Audre LordeTags: fear equality change prejudice civil-rights discrimination racism political homophobia
The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
Mercedes LackeyTags: freedom civil-rights
I didn`t change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.
Charlton HestonTags: politics civil-rights democrats left
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
You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group.
Ron PaulTags: politics liberty freedom civil-rights womens-rights rights bill-of-rights gay-rights equal-rights
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.
Thomas JeffersonTags: religion civil-rights
Jealousy clings to love's underside like bats to a bridge.
Amy WaldmanTags: love family patriotism civil-rights
I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I knew that if we failed it wold injure the whole race.
Booker T. WashingtonTags: education civil-rights
Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.
Bill T. JonesTags: memory civil-rights slavery african-american
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