8 quotes
“In a world where language and naming are power, silence is oppression, is violence.”
"I don't want a Black History Month. Black history is American history."
— Morgan Freeman
"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks."
— Malcolm X
"Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization."
— Scott Peck
"I wrote 'Blackbird' thinking about the civil rights troubles, hoping it might give a little bit of hope."
— Paul McCartney
"The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win, and their participants know it."
— Martin Luther King
"Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry..."