A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
“National security trumps a lot. It can trampke civil rights. It can denude personal liberties. But it cannot and never will triumph… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch… — John Kaplan Copy Share Image
A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era. — Wesley Morris 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
“I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment--that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes… — Booker T. Washington 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
“Truth be told, the party was moving in entirely the wrong direction. Ever since 1964, when Barry Goldwater championed “states’ rights”—understood to… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
They were beginning to burn churches. They were beginning to move beyond crosses... They burned churches because they understood that the Christian… — Ed King Copy Share Image
So much has to do with going beyond treating black people as cosmetic and symbolic items, as opposed to genuine personalities and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“Feeling that our demands were moderate, I had assumed that they would be granted with little question; I had believed that the… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Edmond Locard ordered all the local organ grinders and their simian employees brought to his laboratory. A number of the monkeys, perhaps… — E.J. Wagner Copy Share Image
The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
“Today, by contrast, students explode over imagined slights that are not even remotely in the same category as fighting for civil rights… — Thomas M. Nichols Copy Share Image
Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
“Allow me to explain. Social Justice can mean many things. Gay rights, minority rights, women's rights — all good civil rights stuff.… — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
“This complex and contradictory relation to inequality largely persists in the United States to this day: on the one hand this is… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
“The War on Drugs proved popular among key white voters, particularly whites who remained resentful of black progress, civil rights enforcement, and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Mass incarceration—not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement—is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Even if being gay was a choice... so what? People choose to be assholes and they can get married! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The NRA is interested in protecting the civil rights of Americans, not protecting the ability of terrorists to get guns. — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement. — David Price Copy Share Image
The 21st century for the black community is about building human capital. That is the undone business. That is the unmet need.… — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Where race is concerned, America has had a horrible, a wretched history and that came to account in the 1960s, with the… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights. We have to recognize that… — Dorothy Height Copy Share Image
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today. — David Harris Copy Share Image
“Dump all autocratic nonsense of law-abidance, Tell the right from wrong by conscience rule. If you want human rights to reign supreme,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation. — Fredric Wertham Copy Share Image
Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
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