For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“I did what I thought was right. I'm not trying to win any popularity contest.” — Sue Eakin 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
I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
You know, civil rights is great and everything, but a lot of people don't realize that plumbers in the South make less… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Justice” [Sept. 15]: It appears that the outcome of the civil rights movement has been to replace “Blacks not welcome” with “This… — Anonymous 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
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
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had… — Alice Walker 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
If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
...this bill will require the creation of a Federal police force of mammoth proportions. It also bids fair to result in the… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“To great effect, Reagan echoed white frustration in race-neutral terms through implicit racial appeals. His 'color-blind' rhetoric on crime, welfare, taxes, and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Jimmy likely wrote all three editorials, and one, titled “Who Is for Law and Order?” carried his byline. He argued that the… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“All of this goes back to Bill Clinton. It’s not a coincidence that radical welfare reform took place on the same watch… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
You've got Hezbollah in Arizona. You've got Mexican drug cartels operating in Arizona. You've got the steady stream of illegals over the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“Naturalization, on the other hand, also proved to be a failure. The whole naturalization system of European countries fell apart when it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement. — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
…we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“The problem with today's culture is that we have too many rights and not enough wrongs.” — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
“Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.” — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
“Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.” — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
“Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.” — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
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