... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice. — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways. — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. — Edison Haines Copy Share Image
Peace is a civil right which makes other human rights possible. Peace is a precondition for our existence. Peace permits our continued… — Dennis Kucinich Copy Share Image
There is this pressure for us to only tell stories about slavery and the civil rights era, but there are many of… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement is something I've looked into a lot. When I was about 23, I started reading up on it… — Andre Gray Copy Share Image
When I think about our HBCUs, I think of icons like my mentor Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina State graduate, who fought… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as… — John Marshall Harlan Copy Share Image
The first thing I said to myself on 9/11 was, 'There go our civil rights.' I found out by comparing notes later… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother… — Yaya DaCosta Copy Share Image
The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political… — Dean Baker Copy Share Image
All the civil rights leaders and people who died, black and white, you know, Mexican, Chinese, black, you name it, all the… — Rodney King Copy Share Image
When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
“Moreover, upon revelations that the Internal Revenue Service, under the president and his subordinates, had invidiously targeted conservative organizations for harassment and… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
My earliest memories are when my father was the attorney general at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. We would go… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“Make noise for justice. Make noise for inclusion. Make noise for empathy. Make noise for our planet. Make noise for civil rights.… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt,… — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental… — Rod Blagojevich Copy Share Image
When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students.… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Judge Roberts' civil rights record and views remained the most controversial and unexplained part of his record when the Judiciary Committee hearing… — Mel Watt Copy Share Image
“Freedom of association is one of the natural rights of man. Clearly, therefore, it should also be a "civil" right. Right-to-work laws… — Barry M. Goldwater Copy Share Image
Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a… — Kendrick Meek Copy Share Image
There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
My father's approach to the most brutal and unambiguous social injustices during the civil rights struggle was rooted in nonviolence as a… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved.… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“We have talked long enough ... about civil rights,' Lyndon Johnson had said. 'It is time ... to write it in the… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I went to a very progressive elementary school where I was heavily educated in civil rights. I remember learning about Harvey Milk… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
