I think part of what we're seeing in the rise of white nationalism is their response to Black Lives Matter, is their… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act -… — Stephanie Cutter Copy Share Image
I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer.… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
“He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's not a question of being out of touch or traditional. It's a question of wanting to preserve marriage as uniquely between… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Karen Russell learned to think from her father, someone Peter Gammons knows well, Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, who used his prominence… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“OCR [US Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights] also states that a "school should also ensure that hearings are conducted in… — David E. Bernstein Copy Share Image
With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and… — Eric Thomas Copy Share Image
I'm not a civil rights activist or an activist in general. I just think we all carry a responsibility based on who… — Trevor Lawrence Copy Share Image
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
There are already people en route to join this peaceful, prayerful, nonviolent exercise of our human, treaty, constitutional and civil rights, which… — Chase Iron Eyes Copy Share Image
There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
As a result of that forgiveness, I will never criticize or attack any of your past actions or remarks concerning matters of… — James Carville Copy Share Image
I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? "Jobs and Freedom."… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Because when we look at the modern civil rights movement under the leadership of my father and the team that he developed,… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s,… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and… — Alan Autry Copy Share Image
I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil… — Vicki Sue Robinson Copy Share Image
In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was… — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
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