Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with hu...man rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The representative women of the nation have done their uttermost for the last thirty years to secure freedom for the negro, and so... long as he was lowest in the scale of being we were allowed to press his claims; but now, as the celestial gate to civil rights is slowly moving on its hinges, it becomes a serious question whether we had better stand aside and see "Sambo" walk into the kingdom first. As self-preservation is the first law of nature, would it not be wiser to keep our lamps trimmed and burning, and when the constitutional door is open, avail ourselves of the strong arm and blue uniform of the black soldier to walk in by his side, and thus make the gap so wide that no privileged class could ever again close it against the humblest citizen of the republic?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... in your ordered verdict of guilty you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my ...civil rights, my political rights, my judicial rights are all alike ignored. Robbed of the fundamental privilege of citizenship, I am degraded from the status of a citizen to that of a subject; and not only myself individually but all of my sex are, by your honor's verdict, doomed to political subjection under this so-called republican form of government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It... begins in woman's soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which ha...ve so long been his in law?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back a...nd a mask on his face.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Civil rights of none shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be establish...ed, nor shall the full and equal rights of conscience be in any manner, or on any pretext, be infringed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal ...is to obtain the human rights that America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »