The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals. — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic… — Charles Moore Copy Share Image
My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids.… — Edward P. Jones Copy Share Image
I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
We start 'The Butler' in June and that's incredibly exciting for me because I get to work with the amazing Forest Whitaker… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part… — Adam Selzer Copy Share Image
I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil… — Eleanor Holmes Norton Copy Share Image
“My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“It is no longer enough to just be a good person. We must work to be the next Abraham Lincoln or Martin… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us.… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
“The sober truth is that the most important civil rights battles were fought and won four decades before the Obama presidency. The… — Jason L. Riley Copy Share Image
“The older generation scratched their heads, long comfortable in misery or ignorance now, they’d lost their need to rock the boat. Rocking… — Cindy Brandner Copy Share Image
“was my first indication that the policies of Mamaw’s “party of the working man”—the Democrats—weren’t all they were cracked up to be.… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“The startling truth is that our best efforts for civil rights, international peace, population control, conservation of natural resources, and assistance to… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
You've got the whole civil rights movements emanating from the south, you've got the music that came out of the south that… — Debra Winger Copy Share Image
“Every February, my classmates and I were herded into assemblies for a ritual review of the Civil Rights Movement. Our teachers urged… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“records in any form I request under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act within thirty days and for a reasonable handling… — Elisabeth Rosenthal Copy Share Image
“Within five years, the effects of the civil rights revolution were undeniable. Between 1964 and 1969, the percentage of African American adults… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them. — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
“The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.” — Tom Cardamone Copy Share Image
The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
“God bless mood equalizers. and all moods are created equal. i am the fucking civil rights movement of moods” — John Green Copy Share Image
Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you… — Annie Laurie Gaylor Copy Share Image
What we're about is the belief that access to affordable and real-time health information is a basic human right, and it's a… — Elizabeth Holmes Copy Share Image
![“First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A woman said mass there, which almost got a priest excommunicated there; Black Panthers spoke at the church; it was a sanctuary for civil rights protesters and anti-war protesters.” quote by Ian MacKaye](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/630/ian-mackaye-3369_anti-war_first-of-all-st-stephen-s-is-a-radical-c_394483.png)
