I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Prior to civil rights, the Democratic Party had been defined by an increasingly untenable alliance of ideological opposites - integrationist Northern liberals… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I believe in civil rights, but not in special privilege laws to allow flaunting homosexuals to become role models for children. — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
There are already people en route to join this peaceful, prayerful, nonviolent exercise of our human, treaty, constitutional and civil rights, which… — Chase Iron Eyes Copy Share Image
There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're… — Brandi Carlile Copy Share Image
“records in any form I request under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act within thirty days and for a reasonable handling… — Elisabeth Rosenthal Copy Share Image
The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck… — Norman Lock 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 in… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights. — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need. — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
If Barack Obama believes there are no victims in U.S, then I assume he'll shut down all the civil rights offices throughout… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I see a lot of individual action when it comes to environmental questions really as a form of politics as a way… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
“..I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as… — Billy Sothern 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
“There is another, grimmer history to the filibuster, though, one that carries special relevance for me. For almost a century, the filibuster… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Every advance in this half-century-Social Security, civil rights, Medicare, aid to education, one after another-came with the support and leadership of American… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced… — Bob Beckel Copy Share Image
We chose to frame "March" around the inauguration of Barack Obama because it was such an important moment in the story of… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
