Bruce Hornsby Quotes

My grandfather James Peck was a civil rights activist.

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

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

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.

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

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

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

The rights of all of us are diminished when the rights of any one of us are threatened.

By the force of our demands, our determination and our numbers, we shall splinter the segregated South into a thousand pieces, and put them back in the image of God and democracy.

There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

The civil rights movement was not a mirage… It was live and in living color.

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?

There's a lot of injustice in the world and it's what I sing about in my music and what I try to confront in my life as an activist.

As a civil rights activist of the past 40 years, I cannot support a show that disrespects those beliefs and practices.

The fight for human rights is about speaking truth to power.

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

I don't need no peace. I need equal rights and justice.

How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has been marching since the beginning of time. Where Martin Luther King started is where Gandhi left off, and where he started, Abe Lincoln left off, and before that Whitfield all the way back to Moses. God has not moved. We have. But it is never too late. We are not at the mercy of these events. We can alter the course of history. We can stand against the dangerous arc of this story. But we need people who are willing to speak truth.

As the culture war rages on, Lord give us wisdom to see the difference between defending our rights and protesting our slights.

One thing that I'd just remind young people of is that when John Lewis, who's a member of Congress today, defied George Wallace and led the march from Selma to Montgomery, he was 23 years old. Martin Luther King was the old man in the bunch, and he was 35, so young people need to know that they've always been an important part of our society, have always been at the forefront of pushing for a more just America, and we can't be successful without the impatience, the vigor that young people bring to the fight for social justice.

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.