People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today. — David Harris Copy Share Image
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
It's clear that the laws intended to allow victims to have their cases heard - including our civil rights laws, our criminal… — Cal Cunningham Copy Share Image
I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
Missing from the national conversation are voices of pro-immigration reformers and civil rights leaders, who can speak on behalf of those who… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon. Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I do not want to deny anyone their livelihood or civil rights. Who wants to discriminate against anybody... But when it comes… — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of jobs and titles while working in politics. But at the end of the day, one thing has… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do… — Erwin W. Lutzer 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
To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Karen Russell learned to think from her father, someone Peter Gammons knows well, Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, who used his prominence… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Just five days now before Donald Trump becomes president of the United States after the most intense week yet of this transition.It… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
To me gay rights is the last civil right that we have not granted in America and I think it's an enormous… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era. — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement. — David Price Copy Share Image
The NRA is interested in protecting the civil rights of Americans, not protecting the ability of terrorists to get guns. — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
“Democrats have to continue championing civil rights, human rights, and other issues that are part of our march toward a more perfect… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
As a civil rights attorney and the daughter of a preacher, I understand I have a debt to pay. — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice. — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
