Rand Paul Quotes

I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of "interposition" and "nullification" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers.

Race has no place in American life or law.

I am a Muslim and . . . my religion makes me be against all forms of racism. It keeps me from judging any man by the color of his skin. It teaches me to judge him by his deeds and his conscious behavior. And it teaches me to be for the rights of all human beings, but especially the Afro-American human being, because my religion is a natural religion, and the first law of nature is self-preservation.

Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you don't want me to be here, that's OK. I don't want to out-scream people.

Southern attempts to deny blacks equal rights were turning the Constitution into a sublime and beautiful scripture—into a horrid charter of wrong.

The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

I'm in favor of everything with regards to ending institutional racism.

The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.

If you truly believe in the brotherhood of man, then you must believe that blacks are just as capable of being racists as whites are.

When you say black lives matter, that's inherently racist.

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.

Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the African-American community. They had right on their side. They conducted themselves in high standards, with courage and determination, and they were victorious. They overcame.

I want to be identified with the negro; until he gets his rights, we shall never have ours.

I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed.

Numbered among our population are some 12,000,000 colored people. Under our Constitution their rights are just as sacred as those of any other citizen. It is both a public and a private duty to protect those rights. The Congress ought to exercise all its powers of prevention and punishment against the hideous crime of lynching, of which the negroes are by no means the sole sufferers, but for which they furnish a majority of the victims.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand that.

I am not prejudiced against the Negro. When I was governor, I did more to help the Negroes in our State than any previous Governor, and I think you can find Negro leaders in the State who will attest to this fact.

In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.

What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.