My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
The most memorable interviews for me are folks whose names I don't know: young civil rights leaders in the South, showing great… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Every person with a pulse has a responsibility to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community that is on the front lines… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“Despite the strides America has made in the civil rights movement, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African-American president,… — Lisa Bloom Copy Share Image
Selfish men were...trying to make capital for themselves out of the sacred cause of civil rights — Maria Weston Chapman Copy Share Image
The crowning insult [of abortion] is that this ordeal is represented to her as some kind of a privilege.Her sad and onerous… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
...Sean Penn claimed to be 'serv[ing] the country' by giving aid and comfort to an enemy about to be attacked by the… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
The war on drugs to me is absolutely phoney, its so obviously phoney, ok? It's a war against our civil rights, that's… — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice--that… — Bryan Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I remember it was a quiet, heat-hushed evening. Walking with Mrs. McDonald up a dusty, unpaved road toward her modest home, I… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
John Lewis' vital role in the civil rights movement will never be forgotten, and his legacy will forever be acknowledged by our… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
Quoting Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) US civil rights leader We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo --… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Like the majority of Atlanta's residents, I am Black. Our city helped birth the modern civil rights movement, and I am the… — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age… — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black… — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
Jim Jones started out as a civil rights crusader in Indianapolis. As a young preacher in the mid-50s, he used members of… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything… — Cyndi Lauper Copy Share Image
“When you have an organization that's neither political nor religious and doesn't take part in the civil rights struggle, what can it… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
There's no point going to a country which is torturing people to ask them to stop if they can point out that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
“We have talked long enough ... about civil rights,' Lyndon Johnson had said. 'It is time ... to write it in the… — Robert A. Caro Copy Share Image
“The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to… — Michelle Alexander 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