CIVIL RIGHTS QUOTE RESPONSES
(Follow all directions.)
1. Write down the quote and the author.
2. Write what you think the quote means in your own words.
3. Make a connection from the quote to your own life or the Civil Rights movement.
Faith is taking one step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
OCTOBER 28, 2014
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the
triumph over it.Nelson Mandela
OCTOBER 29, 2014
A man is but the product of his thoughts - what he
thinks, he becomes.Mahatma Gandhi
OCTOBER 30, 2014
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out
hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
OCTOBER 31, 2014
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more
hills to climb.Nelson Mandela
NOVEMBER 3, 2014
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you,
then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma Gandhi
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
A man who will not die for something is not fit
to live.Martin Luther King, Jr.
NOVEMBER 5, 2014
Education is the most powerful weapon that you can use to change
the world.Nelson Mandela
NOVEMBER 6, 2014
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
NOVEMBER 7, 2014
It always seems impossible until it is
done.Nelson Mandela
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
NOVEMBER 11, 2014
Anger and intolerance are the enemies of
correct understanding.Mahatma Gandhi
NOVEMBER 12, 2014
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too
great a burden to bear.Martin Luther King,
Jr.
NOVEMBER 13, 2014
There is no passion to be found in playing small - in
settling for a life that is less than the one you are
capable of living.Nelson Mandela
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
The weak can never forgive.
is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
NOVEMBER 17, 2014
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
NOVEMBER 18, 2014
For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains,
but to live in a way that respects and enhances the
freedom of others.Nelson Mandela
NOVEMBER 19, 2014
A “No” uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a “Yes”
merely to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mahatma Gandhi
NOVEMBER 20, 2014