A lot of people criticized me for speaking out, not long ago, about gay marriage. I could not remain silent any longer.… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother… — Yaya DaCosta Copy Share Image
We've seen it again and again. From civil rights to women's rights to marriage rights, this country has reinvented itself in the… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a… — Malcolm X 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
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
For centuries, faith has helped us overcome problems and helped us work to achieve a more perfect union. It has inspired the… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
The American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to… — Caroline Kennedy 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
As Dr. King said, an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. It is that creed of the civil rights movement… — Steven Horsford Copy Share Image
My heart beats red, white, and blue. And with patriotism it aches Generally, I believe in democracy, freedom and civil rights But… — John Walter Bratton Copy Share Image
At my direction, the Department's Office for Civil Rights remains committed to investigating all claims of discrimination, bullying, and harassment against those… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute. — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
We have to help decision makers realize that women's reproductive health rights are civil rights and that women need to be free… — Maggie Hassan Copy Share Image
Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“I’m very fond of the concept of choice as the basis for sexual preference. This point of view is unpopular in an… — Patrick Califia 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
Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
If you follow Donald Trump's logic, say that he couldn't decide any civil rights cases because he would be biased.I mean, we… — Deborah Rhode Copy Share Image