Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
The president who did the most for black Americans in 20th century history was Lyndon Johnson, and he got his hands dirty… — Steve Inskeep Copy Share Image
Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. In respect of civil rights, all citizens are equal before… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father's leadership was about more than civil rights. He was deeply concerned with human rights and world peace, and he said… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't… — Nate Parker 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
Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“A college student who wants to file a complaint of sexual assault within the campus disciplinary system informs a university employee such… — David E. Bernstein Copy Share Image
“In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice--that… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Shout out to the noisemakers. Our world needs your voices. Make noise for justice. Make noise for inclusion. Make noise for empathy.… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
From the new hate crimes law to the repeal of DOMA and 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell,' to the emerging popular support for… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“I am convinced that men hate each other because they fear each other. They fear each other because they don’t know each… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are… — Lyndon B Johnson Copy Share Image
We must go beyond the arrogance of human rights. We must go beyond the ignorance of civil rights. We must step into… — John Trudell Copy Share Image
We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
I would have to say all of the civil rights acts, because there were three, and even, say, the Immigration Act, which… — Lynda Bird Johnson Robb Copy Share Image
When I went off to college, I went believing I was a Republican. And actually I was president of Young Republicans for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
From the end of Reconstruction through the civil rights revolution, the South was an almost uniformly Democratic region. In 1936, for example,… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“There are many fake memes floating about the internet, one of them misquotes me saying - 'spare the toilet, spoil the floor.'… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney, its so obviously phoney, ok? It's a war against our civil rights, that's… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“I watched as people went to the memorial reading the names. I started at the first entry from 1954. I read each… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
I care about affordable housing. I care about bus routes. I care about small business. I care about schools. These are not… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
My friends, to those who say that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to them we are 172… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for… — David Duke Copy Share Image
The Democrats pretended to care about black people for about five minutes to help their electoral process, and then civil rights suddenly… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“More and more I feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than have the people of… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
