Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society. — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need. — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
Stop and frisk - whether done while walking down the street or while driving a car - is a civil rights violation. — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Are you kidding me? It's insane that civil rights are being denied people in this day and age. It's embarrassing, and it's… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
The parts of the [Civil Right] Movement we recognize so well now were not born from a single decision, but were a… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
While American intellectual property deserves protection, that protection must be won and defended in a manner that does not stifle innovation, erode… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
For my grandfather, there was no distinction. There was no tension between his support for civil rights for black people and his… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement… — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We've seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We've seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
You can't separate the phenomenal birth of unionism in the United States of America from the Pullman porters. This same small group… — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“Sometime the witch hunting takes on atrocious dimensions — the Nazi persecution of Jews, the Salem witch trials, the Ku Klux Klan… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
“Once it had been simple. Civil rights supporters knew who their enemies were: special interests such as the real estate associations (who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the lessons I have learned in trying to live with history is that for every repression, we have found a… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Death isn’t always sad. This week, the Reverend Jerry Falwell died, and millions of Americans asked, “Why? Why, God? Why…didn’t… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
It is pleasing to reflect that results so beneficial, not only to the States immediately concerned, but to the harmony of the… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
“As the rules of acceptable discourse changed, however, segregationists distanced themselves from an explicitly racist agenda. they developed instead the racially sanitized… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
As president, I won't just continue to defend women's civil rights from political attacks - I'll make guaranteeing those rights a priority. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in… — Bruce Hornsby Copy Share Image
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking. — Amber Hollibaugh Copy Share Image
The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do. — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero. — Harry Enten Copy Share Image
I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
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