It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
While nothing is perfect or complete in the battle for civil rights, the efforts of Dr. King and those like him have… — Skai Jackson Copy Share Image
On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“But where Lincoln’s absent hand was felt most keenly was in race relations. Black codes were passed in state after state across… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
“Even more systemic persecution was on the way, Messersmith wrote. He had learned that a draft existed of a new law that… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“To Malcolm X, thank you for teaching us the kind of self-love that can never be taken away, To Malcolm X, thank… — Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele Copy Share Image
“Racial stereotyping. For Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, the sin of white racism was stereotyping all black people… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
To those who say, my friends, to those who say, that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“American culture quite naturally provides these ideological supports to those it favors and elects as fellow participants in the social and psychological… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
“Initially, the purveyors of racism need no more than the silent acquiescence of the public ... [I]t is never too soon to… — Hans J. Massaquoi Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“Bopp had battered away at the foundation of modern campaign-finance law. He had succeeded in part by using the liberals’ language of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was… — Arthur Mitchell Copy Share Image
There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“King had marched six weeks earlier through the Mississippi town where the civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were murdered. He… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“the classroom as a living, breathing place. They chose discussions over lectures, experience over theory. They sent students to the Deep South… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Opposing discrimination and supporting longstanding laws such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is not controversial - but conflating civil rights… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
We're living in a time when so many of the civil rights and social justice organizations are run by lawyers and policy… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Across the political spectrum, Americans assert that any form of white racial consciousness or solidarity is despicable. Whites, therefore, have tried to… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
“But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
The day when the Jew was first admitted to civil rights, the Christian state was in danger...the entrance of the Jew into… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
“The only marches I have ever witnessed under a banner of so-called "Christianity" have been to enforce oppression and incite hatred and… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
If the opportunity comes along to do a piece that has absolutely nothing to do with my gender or my race, and… — Naomi Ackie Copy Share Image
In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Civil rights is just one battlefield in the real war of the left, which is the war against America itself. The big… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
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