That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
“There is no greater environmental stabilizer than commoners jolted to duty.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community… — Moshe Katsav Copy Share Image
From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow… — Carl Schurz Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
An unconditional right to say what one pleases about public affairs is what I consider to be the minimum guarantee of the… — Hugo Black Copy Share Image
the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue. — Adam Cohen 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
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
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
It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
Today on MLK DAY, please remember those who marched when it was illegal to march, participated in sit-ins in restaurants like the… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
“I focused my speech on the way in which 1960s leftists had betrayed their own ideals by doing an about-face on civil… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
