We are a nation of innovators and problem-solvers who sparked revolutions in democratic government, civil rights, communications, flight, rural electrification and technology.… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
I know I'm going back some decades, but I'll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few Black kids in… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“The western world is a dishonest society of non-disclosure agreements, cash for silence, and the illegal removal of civil rights from those… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The fact that women are very young in obtaining their civil rights and African-Americans are young in obtaining their civil rights, I… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a… — Lyndon B Johnson Copy Share Image
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
We don't want to blame the victim. The civil rights movement had a profound effect on the United States and on the… — Jerome Kagan 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
“Look, dude, you've sampled your life, mixed those sounds with a funk precedent, and established a sixteen-bar system of government for the… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
“Allow me to explain. Social Justice can mean many things. Gay rights, minority rights, women's rights — all good civil rights stuff.… — T.J. Kirk Copy Share Image
Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. “Equal opportunity” now means preferential… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what… — Henry Hampton Copy Share Image
“If J. Edgar Hoover had something like Total Information Awareness, would his agents have used it, as they did all the other… — Christian Parenti Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the… — John Hume Copy Share Image
Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights… — George Weigel Copy Share Image
There's a lot of hip-hop that's oriented toward a progressive view of America because it's oriented toward a civil rights progress and… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
I was very much a part of the civil rights era, so, of course, my fantasy was to marry some outstanding black… — Roxie Roker Copy Share Image
That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
“the classroom as a living, breathing place. They chose discussions over lectures, experience over theory. They sent students to the Deep South… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We're living in a time when so many of the civil rights and social justice organizations are run by lawyers and policy… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Opposing discrimination and supporting longstanding laws such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is not controversial - but conflating civil rights… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
If the opportunity comes along to do a piece that has absolutely nothing to do with my gender or my race, and… — Naomi Ackie Copy Share Image
In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
The day when the Jew was first admitted to civil rights, the Christian state was in danger...the entrance of the Jew into… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
“The only marches I have ever witnessed under a banner of so-called "Christianity" have been to enforce oppression and incite hatred and… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
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“He renamed India’s untouchables harijan, “God’s people,” and raised them to human stature. And in doing so he provided the nonviolent strategy… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
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