African American Civil Rights Quotes

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Hate is too great a burden to bear.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Anyone who said he wasn’t afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn’t shake but inside I was shaking.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.

I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don’t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Knowing what must be done does away with fear.