“I had no way of predicting that Selma to Montgomery was indeed to be the last great civil rights march of the… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement,… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s,… — Paul Solman Copy Share Image
“The Treasury had brought into being an underclass of information workers who were functionaries of the state without having full civil rights,… — Marie Hicks Copy Share Image
During Black History Month, I'm reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle… — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
One wonders if Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's administrations may come to be viewed, in the future, as having been underestimated in… — James M Strock Copy Share Image
We have a ways to go here, but elections have consequences ... I think that our Republican colleagues, the Republican National Party,… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
U.S. v. Arizona is a landmark case not just because of the constitutional issues related to who regulates and enforces immigration, but… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
You have to have a multipronged approach and a significant part of that is educating the public and change the culture so… — David D. Cole Copy Share Image
Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image
I am having nothing to do with this so-called civil rights bill. The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ… — George Wallace Copy Share Image
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community, the civil rights community is oddly quiet.” — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I've always found the rhetoric of mainstream civil rights leaders and organizations to be far too timid, accommodationist, and gradualist. It always… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
But there are a couple of places where it is clear to me that there should be no ambiguity of corporate responsibility… — Leo Hindery Copy Share Image
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil… — Vicki Sue Robinson Copy Share Image
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. Dr. King did not stir us to… — Dorothy Height Copy Share Image
