To me, I know that if we could pass the Civil Rights Act…

It will already be unbelievably hard to pass Medicare for All once with a massive outside pressure campaign by an organized grassroots movement and…

— Krystal Ball

“Even with a Democratic president behind the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a far larger percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for it. Eminent…

— Ann Coulter

“Martin Luther King Jr. was the greatest movement leader in American history. But, as Hillary Clinton once correctly pointed out, his efforts would have…

— Mark Lilla

A black man of my generation born in the late 1960s is more than twice as likely to go to prison in his lifetime…

— James Forman, Jr

This is nothing new. We saw this with the Social Security Act, the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Right Act - constitutional challenges…

— Stephanie Cutter

I would have to say all of the civil rights acts, because there were three, and even, say, the Immigration Act, which I think…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

“These and other measures, however, seemed relatively inconsequential in 1965 compared to a Big Four that passed by the end of the session: federal…

— James T. Patterson

“In 1866, Congress enforced the abolition of slavery by passing a Civil Rights Act, prohibiting actions that it deemed perpetuated the characteristics of slavery.…

— Richard Rothstein

We know that there were so many Japanese American soldiers in World War II who were fighting in Europe despite the fact that their…

— Tamlyn Tomita

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

— Henry Rollins

This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“The House adjourned without voting on the bill, but the following year a similar bill—mandating equality in hotels and restaurants open to the public,…

— H.W. Brands

Persistence. Change doesn't happen overnight. You have to stay with it. Rosa Parks helped start the Civil Rights movement in earnest in 1955. Then…

— Kabir Sehgal

Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made it illegal…

— Norah Vincent

It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed me to enforce the Civil Rights…

— Thomas Perez