“I didn't change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.” — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future. — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement. — Danny Glover 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
“Black power showed up in different ways, depending on the goals of the group.” — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.” — DaShanne Stokes 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
Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
In the 1950s, the black men and women and their white allies who fought for civil rights and basic human dignity could… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part… — Adam Selzer Copy Share Image
May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later,… — Thomas Jefferson 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
“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
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
In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets. — Hoyt W. Fuller Copy Share Image
When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
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