Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about… — Morris Dees Copy Share Image
I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation. — John Lewis 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
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
“Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.” — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There's a lot of hip-hop that's oriented toward a progressive view of America because it's oriented toward a civil rights progress and… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
“Make noise for justice. Make noise for inclusion. Make noise for empathy. Make noise for our planet. Make noise for civil rights.… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt,… — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
When I taught a civil rights class at the University of Maryland Law School, I would do an exercise with my students.… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Judge Roberts' civil rights record and views remained the most controversial and unexplained part of his record when the Judiciary Committee hearing… — Mel Watt Copy Share Image
“The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. “Equal opportunity” now means preferential… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
My issue is race. I feel black people nowadays have to conform to this one ideal. We all have to be the… — Kamanda Ndama Copy Share Image
When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's not often that you get to read something that just feels very original for a star but also something that feels… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the… — John Hume Copy Share Image
“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies...but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr.” — Mark Long Copy Share Image
Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of… — Ron Dellums Copy Share Image
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
I was always a politician from the day the civil rights people chose me as their protest singer. — Nina Simone Copy Share Image
Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored… — Henry Campbell Black Copy Share Image
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image