#human-rights

“Women of the Hall: Rosa Parks,”

“From my upbringing and the Bible I learned people should stand up for rights just as the children of Israel stood up to the Pharaoh. Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks , by Jeanne Theoharis”

“God has always given me the strength to say what is right... I had the strength of God and my ancestors with me. Quoted in The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks , by Jeanne Theoharis”

“Standing Up for Freedom,”

“I'd see the bus pass every day... But to me, that was a way of life; we had no choice but to accept what was the custom. The bus was among the first ways I realized there was a black world and a white world. Quoted in The Story Behind the Bus .  Rosa Parks Bus . The Henry Ford. Retrieved on 2008”

“Rosa Parks: Her simple act of protest galvanized America's civil rights revolution,”

“Thank you very much. I honor my late husband Raymond Parks, other Freedom Fighters, men of goodwill who could not be here. I'm also honored by young men who respect me and have invited me as an elder. Raymond, or Parks as I called him, was an activist in the Scottsboro Boys case, voter registration, and a role model for youth. As a self”

“Parks Recalls Bus Boycott, Excerpts from an interview with Lynn Neary”

“People always said that I didn't give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn't true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day. I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty”

“You may do that. (on being threatened with arrest for failing to move from her seat) “You’re Under Arrest”: Rosa Parks’ Disobedience Against Racism , 2022”

“and keep men's minds centered on”

“He who lives by the sword will perish by the sword.”

“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him. Sermon at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church”

“disturbing the peace”

“There lived a race of people a black people, ‘fleecy locks and black complexion’, a people who had the moral courage to stand up for their rights. And thereby they injected a new meaning into the veins of history and of civilization.”

“Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love , love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith . There is another side called justice . And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love. Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church”

“justice runs down like water , and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

“We are here, we are here this evening because we're tired now. And I want to say that we are not here advocating violence. We have never done that. I want it to be known throughout Montgomery and throughout this nation that we are Christian people. We believe in the Christian religion. We believe in the teachings of Jesus . The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all. Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church”

“We, the disinherited of this land , we who have been oppressed so long, are tired of going through the long night of captivity. And now we are reaching out for the daybreak of freedom and justice and equality . Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church”

“You know my friends , there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair . There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November . There comes a time. Montgomery Bus Boycott speech, at Holt Street Baptist Church”

“They [America] don't practice what they preach, whereas South Africa preaches and practices the same thing. I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil. Oxford Union Debate”

“Malcolm X Lays Harlem Riot To ‘Scare Tactics’ of Police”

“We are African, and we happened to be in America. We're not American. We are people who formerly were Africans who were kidnapped and brought to America. Our forefathers weren't the Pilgrims . We didn't land on Plymouth Rock . The rock was landed on us. We were brought here against our will. We were not brought here to be made citizens. We were not brought here to enjoy the constitutional gifts that they speak so beautifully about today. Speech at Founding Rally of the Organization of Afro”

“There can be no black”

“If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound. They won't even admit the knife is there. TV interview after 90”

“this is a moral issue.”

“If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country.”

“Malcolm X Scores U.S. and Kennedy”

“Malcolm X Scores Kennedy on Racial Policy: Says He Is 'Wrong Because His Motivation Is Wrong': Head of Black Muslim Group Cites Birmingham Crisis”

“Anybody that gives even a just criticism of the Jew is instantly labeled antisemite. The Jew cries louder than anybody else if anybody criticizes him. You can tell the truth about any minority in America, but make a true observation about the Jew, and if it doesn't pat him on the back, then he uses his grip on the news media to label you anti”

“The first time I went into the place I was horrified to see little girls seven and eight years old on their knees scrubbing the cold stones of the long corridors ... bronchitis was epidemic among them most of the time ... I found that there were pregnant women in that workhouse, scrubbing floors, doing the hardest kind of work, almost until their babies came into the world ... Of course the babies are very badly protected ... These poor, unprotected mothers and their babies I am sure were potent factors in my education as a militant.”

“It was a time of tremendous unrest, of labour agitations, of strikes and lockouts. It was a time also when a most stupid reactionary spirit seemed to take possession of the Government and the authorities. The Salvation Army , the Socialists, the trade”

“The following year (1886) found us living in London, and, as usual, interesting ourselves with labour matters and other social movements. This year was memorable for a great strike of women working in the Bryant and May match factories. I threw myself into this strike with enthusiasm, working with the girls and with some women of prominence, among these the celebrated Mrs. Annie Besant. The strike was a successful one, the girls winning substantial improvements in their working conditions.”

“What a pity she wasn't born a lad.”

“making home attractive”

“The rest of the story reveals one of those ghastly blunders which justice not infrequently makes. Although the shooting was done without any intent to kill, the men were tried for murder and three of them were found guilty and hanged.... I was transfixed with horror, and over me there swept the sudden conviction that that hanging was a mistake”

“Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe 's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin , was so great a favourite with my mother that she used it continually as a source of bedtime stories for our fascinated ears. Those stories, told almost fifty years ago, are as fresh in my mind to”

“One of my earliest recollections is of a great bazaar which was held in my native city of Manchester, the object of the bazaar being to raise money to relieve the poverty of the newly emancipated negro slaves in the United States.... Young as I was”

“Those men and women are fortunate who are born at a time when a great struggle for human freedom is in progress. It is an added good fortune to have parents who take a personal part in the great movements of their time. I am glad and thankful that this was my case.”

“The closing paragraphs of this book were written in the late summer of 1914, when the armies of every great power in Europe were being mobilised for savage, unsparing, barbarous warfare”

“When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. As quoted in Eleanor : The Years Alone (1972) by Joseph P. Lash”

“In Defense of Curiosity”

“good night, sleep well, pleasant dreams, with the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.' from”

“Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. Preface (December 1960) to The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt (1961), p. xix”

“To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times”

“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk. The New York Times (1960), as cited in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 156”

“It isn't enough to talk about peace . One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. Voice of America broadcast”

“Understanding is a two”

“damned if you do, and damned if you don't.”

“Oh! I want to put my arms around you, I ache to hold you close. Your ring is a great comfort. I look at it and think she does love me or I wouldn't be wearing it! In a letter to Lorena Hickok, March 7, 1933”

“Our sweat and our blood have fallen on this land to make other men rich. The pilgrimage is a witness to the suffering we have seen for generations.”

“We, the undersigned, gathered in Pilgrimage to the capital of the State in Sacramento in penance for all the failings of Farm Workers as free and sovereign men, do solemnly declare before the civilized world which judges our actions, and before the nation to which we belong, the propositions we have formulated to end the injustice that oppresses us.”

“We can't be free ourselves if we can't free our women.”

“History will judge societies and governments”

“We need, in a special way, to work twice as hard to make all people understand that animals are fellow creatures, that we must protect them and love them as we love ourselves... The basis for peace is respecting all creatures... That's the basis, the beginning for peace. ...We know we cannot defend or be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them”

“We don't know how God chooses martyrs. We do know that they give us the most precious gift they possess”

“I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we (humans) do. As quoted in Lumen (1986) by G. J. Caton, p. 133”

“You are here to discuss a matter which is of extreme importance to yourselves, your families and your community, so let's get to the subject at hand. A hundred and fifty”

“Personal motto later officially used by the United Farm Workers”