“Look, dude, you've sampled your life, mixed those sounds with a funk precedent, and established a sixteen-bar system of government for the… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I am - Somebody. I may be poor, but I am - Somebody! I may be on welfare, but I am -… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement is understanding your freedom under the Constitution of these United States and if anyone tries to take those… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
The amount of money and of legal energy being given to prosecute hundreds of thousands of Americans who are caught with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You got to understand, Arthur Alexander was there with us, and some of his crew. It was in the '50s in Alabama.… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
“America is a leap of the imagination. From its beginning, people had only a persistent idea of what a good country should… — Ian Frazier Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
“The basic move of liberalism is to replace the social centre (normal people) with the margin (foreigners, minorities, deviants) forever. The stack… — Mike Maxwell Copy Share Image
...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent… They must harass, debate,… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There was one story that anger certainly lit the fuse of. In the 1960's, in my home town of Jackson, the civil… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“3. Serving Two Masters Derrick Bell has pointed out a third structure that impedes reform, this time in law. To litigate a… — Richard Delgado Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We don't want to blame the victim. The civil rights movement had a profound effect on the United States and on the… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
We want to make certain that every American who stood in silent tribute to Rosa Parks hopes that the Sepreme Court Judge… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both India and Pakistan. It's also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The civil rights revolution of the 1960s was vital, but it wasn’t a panacea, and the problems of today—from the racial wealth… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
We can't understand what we've accomplished on civil rights without telling the story of Bayard Rustin. And now, we must write the… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
The advent of the civil rights movement during the 50s and 60s made it very plain crystal clear to me that we… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and… — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
“Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
You know, as a child of Palestinian immigrants, again, every corner of my district is a reminder of the civil rights movement,… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
If youre going to provide civil rights and equality for everybody, you cannot draw a line, you cannot build a wall. We… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
All the civil rights leaders and people who died, black and white, you know, Mexican, Chinese, black, you name it, all the… — Rodney King Copy Share Image
When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
