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

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

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Harper Lee

• Margaret Walker

• John F. Kennedy

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

• Robert F. Kennedy

• Margaret Walker

• Harper Lee

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

• Robert F. Kennedy

• Margaret Walker

• Harper Lee

“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

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

• Robert F. Kennedy

• Harper Lee

• Margaret Walker

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

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Harper Lee

• Robert F. Kennedy

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

• Robert F. Kennedy

• Margaret Walker

• Martin Luther, King, Jr.

“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.

“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.