Susan Elizabeth Phillips Quotes

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

I'm an anarchist and I do think things such as Occupy Wall Street are about getting a little closer to the solution.

Your not going to change the hearts and minds. You have to change to law.

I've always admired lawyers who use their power to effect social change, and Thurgood Marshall was always a childhood hero of mine.

Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation didn't just happen - people made it happen. And marriage equality didn't just happen, either - people made it happen.

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end segregation. What changed things was the rule of law, the courts. Brown v. Board of Education was ushered in by a movement, but it was a legal decision.

I think Dr. King, if he were alive today, he wouldn't disrespect the flag or the anthem; he would use his words and his voice to send a message for positive change.

I went to the Democratic Convention as a journalist, and returned a cold-blooded revolutionary.

A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically; they cannot be fought or corrected by means of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom.

You don't disarm any white community by confining yourself to any particular method. If you want freedom, then you should get freedom like Patrick Henry said, by whatever method is necessary.

Martin Luther King was only an activist for 13 years and every year he changed and every year he became more radical. By the end he was calling for revolution. People don't know this because they go to too many prayer breakfasts on his birthday.

The anti-war movement should turn itself into a pro-democracy movement

Change the narrative, change the laws.

I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer.

The rhythm of being an activist today involves a pretty simple rhythm. You have to open your eyes to the reality before you. You have to look and see.

Freedom is always in danger, and the majority of mankind will always acquiesce in its loss, unless a minority is willing to challenge the privileges of its few and the apathy of the masses.

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

When the students in the South, the blacks, started demonstrating, that was the beginning of the time of students becoming a social force around the world.

Look at what I've done my entire life. I have been working on behalf of civil rights, women's rights, human rights for years and I know how challenging it is to change our political system and I have the highest regard for those who have put themselves on the line.

You don't manage a social wrong. You should be ending it.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

Every man or woman who makes a stand helps keep the flame of freedom burning.

Trump's creating laws for crimes that don't exist. In Canada, we have Prime Minister Trudeau in the gay Pride parade waving a flag.

I guess I would say first of all that we tend to go back to the 60s and we tend to see these struggles and these goals in a relatively static way.