David Price Quotes

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

Martin Luther King told American Blacks not to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

Awareness in our society has flipped all types of injustice on its head.

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put in, and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

I’ve never been involved in a Civil Rights campaign that was not ill-timed

We will have demonstrations until the injustices that have caused them are eliminated.

My grandfather James Peck was a civil rights activist.

My father acted as the Illinois Branch president of the NAACP and so we spent a lot of time in the marches and the rallies working on behalf of people of color.

I grew up in Illinois in an environment where my parents were very politically active in the civil rights movement.

I want some help on this. I'm being very honest, i want some ideas, as somebody who was arrested 50 years ago fighting for Civil Rights trying to desegregate schools in Chicago, who spent his whole life fighting against racism, I want your ideas. What do you think we can do? What can we do?

When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

The March on Washington affirmed our values as a people: equality and opportunity for all. Forty-one years ago, during a time of segregation, these were an ideal.

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.

Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

There are those who say to you we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years too late.