Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights. — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.' — Ruby Dee 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
That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation. — Samuel Bowers Copy Share Image
Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
“[People] are beginning to awaken to an idea we gave meaning to in the sixties: We are one people, one family, the… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Bolivia was the first country to stop hyperinflation in a democracy without depriving people of their civil rights and without violating human… — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
You know, civil rights is great and everything, but a lot of people don't realize that plumbers in the South make less… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I remembered how tough it was getting black people in large tenements to come together to build a playground. The enemy was… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
My earliest memories are when my father was the attorney general at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. We would go… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their… — Malala Yousafzai 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 Great Activist (Sonnet) The world doesn't need another climate summit, the world needs a climate summon, and not from some fair-weather… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
I acknowledge that such a debt [of service to my fellow-citizens] exists, that a tour of duty in whatever line he can… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It is, indeed, one of the basic moral blindspots of American conservatism that its intellectual and leadership energy have never been focused… — Martin Kilson Copy Share Image
The anonymity issue is a big question. As long as people can disguise cyber attacks and as long as there is a… — Misha Glenny Copy Share Image
“Since Ivy League admissions data is a notoriously classified commodity, when when Harvard officials said in previous years that alumni kids were… — John Larew Copy Share Image
I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move. — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets. — Hoyt W. Fuller Copy Share Image
“Black power showed up in different ways, depending on the goals of the group.” — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
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