If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals. — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
Americans are right to believe the American Dream is fading. But that dream only became a possibility for white men as a… — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
“Once it had been simple. Civil rights supporters knew who their enemies were: special interests such as the real estate associations (who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The seminal right of the modern civil rights movement was the right to vote. My father fought so diligently for it. Certainly… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Bolsonaro is a tropical Trump. They have a very common agenda, a very regressive agenda, when it comes to civil rights, social… — Fernando Haddad Copy Share Image
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
I think, especially among the New York intelligentsia at that time, that there was a reason Bob Dylan went to New York… — T Bone Burnett Copy Share Image
[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero. — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
“Jimmy never met Joe Louis before that trial, only the jury didn’t know that. But Jimmy was strong for civil rights. That… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as… — Jim Gerlach Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
All the civil rights leaders and people who died, black and white, you know, Mexican, Chinese, black, you name it, all the… — Rodney King 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
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin 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
“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
“Even with a Democratic president behind the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a far larger percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
We want to make certain that every American who stood in silent tribute to Rosa Parks hopes that the Sepreme Court Judge… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
“The third Great Awakening is variously said to have started between the 1860s and 1890; it continued into the early 1900s and… — Charles Murray Copy Share Image
I was morose that the Era of Barack Obama has returned us to a period where everything is racist, everyone is walking… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image