Some articles on civil rights, civil rights activist, rights activist, rights, activists, activist:
... Barrett Honorary SNCC worker One of the few white northerners to join the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s Daisy Bates Honorary Advisor to the Little Rock Nine to ... Council of Negro Women founder of the Literary and Industrial Training School for Negro Girls civil rights activist founder of Bethune-Cookman University ... First black woman admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar Mary Church Terrell Honorary Writer, Civil Rights and Women's Rights activist First president of the ...
... See also History of human rights The specific enumeration of rights has differed greatly in different periods of history ... In many cases, the system of rights promulgated by one group has come into sharp and bitter conflict with that of other groups ... In the political sphere, a place in which rights have historically been an important issue, at present the question of who has what legal rights is sometimes addressed by ...
... Davis Lawyer, Publisher, Civil rights activist Roger Gregory Upsilon Nu Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit Nathan Hare Phi Psi The first coordinator of a black studies ... Virgin Islands Benjamin Hooks Chi Psi Executive Director of NAACP,Civil Rights Activist, Minister Jesse Jackson, Jr ... Upsilon leader in social movements for civil rights, socialism, pacifism and non-violence, and gay rights ...
... According to the Greensboro Historical Museum, Bush participated in civil rights protests from 1961 to 1966 ...
... (Miscellaneous) for a separate listing of more than 50 activists Bella Abzug (LL.M. 1947), social rights activist and a leader of the women's rights movement Anna Baltzer, public speaker and Jewish-American pro-Palestinian activist Mark Barnes (LL.M. 1941), civil rights activist, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund general counsel, in which capacity he argued Brown v ...
Famous quotes containing the words civil rights activist, rights activist, activist, civil and/or rights:
“I’ve never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.”
—Victoria Gray, African American civil rights activist. As quoted in This Little Light of Mine, ch. 3, by Hay Mills (1993)
“When lions paint pictures men will not always be represented as conquerors. When women translate laws, constitutions, bibles and philosophies, man will not always be the declared heard of the church, the state, and the home.”
—Elizabeth Cady Stanton 1815–1902, U.S. women’s rights activist, author, editor. The Revolution (August 13, 1868)
“If we love-and-serve an ideal we reach backward in time to its inception and forward to its consummation. To grow is sometimes to hurt; but who would return to smallness?”
—Sarah Patton Boyle, U.S. civil rights activist and author. The Desegregated Heart, part 3, ch. 3 (1962)
“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.”
—Malcolm X (1925–1965)
“In our governments the real power lies in the majority of the community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from the acts of government contrary to the sense of the constituents, but from the acts in which government is the mere instrument of the majority.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)