Quotes of Civil Rights Speakers/Writers

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Robert F. Kennedy

• Mrs. Thackery

• Margaret Walker

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“Love is the only force that can transform an enemy into a friend.”

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Harper Lee

• Margaret Walker

• John F. Kennedy

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“I think there’s just one kind of folks: folks.”

• Robert F. Kennedy

• Margaret Walker

• Harper Lee

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“Folks don’t like to have somebody around knowing more than they do.”

• Robert F. Kennedy

• Margaret Walker

• Harper Lee

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“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Harper Lee

• Margaret Walker

• Robert F. Kennedy

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“Friends and good manners will take you where money won’t go.”

• Robert F. Kennedy

• Harper Lee

• Margaret Walker

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“Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope.”

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Harper Lee

• Robert F. Kennedy

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“The future is not a gift; it is an achievement.”

• Robert F. Kennedy

• Margaret Walker

• Martin Luther, King, Jr.

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“Be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway, just be a trail. If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.”

• Robert F. Kennedy

• Margaret Walker

• Martin Luther, King, Jr.

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“In memory of the bitter hours when we discovered we

Were black and poor and small and different and nobody

Cared and nobody wondered and nobody understood.”

• Robert F. Kennedy

• Margaret Walker

• Martin Luther, King, Jr.

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