There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I would want to go back to the civil rights movement and see how that was. With the information and knowledge I… — Storm Reid Copy Share Image
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
They came up with a civil rights bill in 1964, supposedly to solve our problem, and after the bill was signed, three… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
As a life-long liberal who has engaged in protests against the government and for civil rights, I am saddened at efforts by… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
Forgiveness became a big part of the civil rights movement, juxtaposed against the violence of protesters and law enforcement. King described forgiveness… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
This formidable censor of the public functionaries [the press], by arraigning them at the tribunal of public opinion, produces reform peaceably, which… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Not one of the investigations for civil rights violations that Eric Holder brought on behalf of the Department of Justice, resulted in… — Kimberly Guilfoyle Copy Share Image
The problem that we face as civil rights lawyers and advocates is that its extremely difficult to prove race discrimination because the… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“A favorite liberal taunt is to accuse conservatives of clinging to an idealized past. Poor, right-wing Americans vaguely sense the world is… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
This bill would renounce the safe, proper, and acceptable role for Government as a referee of disputes between the governed. It would… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
“a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have infiltrated both the Democrat [sic] and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
This is a crucial time in the fight for corporate civil rights. Just look at the hateful signs at Occupy Wallstreet: 'Corporations… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“But here in my hometown, history was like a fine dust that settled out on everything. There was nothing to counter it.… — Christina Carson Copy Share Image
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
“If you won't stand up against those who tear us apart with their lies, hate, and bigotry, expect to do a lot… — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
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
You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
“First thousand were an accident, Second thousand, a promise. Answer to traditional animosity, Antidote to doting prejudice.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I earned my spurs in the civil rights movement. All my life, not for political but for religious reasons, moral reasons, that's… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no… — Mark Shields 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
Many Catholic parishes were segregated prior to the Civil Rights movement, and the first large contingent of African-American Catholic priests would enter… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“When you have an organization that's neither political nor religious and doesn't take part in the civil rights struggle, what can it… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the '60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he… — Roy Wilkins Copy Share Image
All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
“My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.” — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
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