I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
My life is about being a civil rights activist. That's my life. Whoever you are, everyone, we either have civil rights or… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement. — Michael Tubbs 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
President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all. — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights. — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us.… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of… — John Legend Copy Share Image
First of all, [St. Stephen's] is a radical church. It was one of the first DC churches to have gay ceremonies. A… — Ian MacKaye Copy Share Image
My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family… — Anthony Jeselnik 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
When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation… — Mike Huckabee 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
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
“widespread. Some states go so far as to forcibly sterilize people with certain disabilities. Some prohibit marriage for the genetically disabled, for… — Ben Mattlin 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
The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
There is a moral virtue, a moral fidelity, ability and honesty, which other men, besides church members, are, by good nature and… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't… — Michelle Alexander 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
“While the Reconstruction Era was fraught with corruption and arguably doomed by the lack of land reform, the sweeping economic and political… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“First, That every civil right grows out of a natural right; or, in other words, is a natural right exchanged. Secondly, That… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“Naturalization, on the other hand, also proved to be a failure. The whole naturalization system of European countries fell apart when it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Jimmy likely wrote all three editorials, and one, titled “Who Is for Law and Order?” carried his byline. He argued that the… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“New Rule: Death isn’t always sad. This week, the Reverend Jerry Falwell died, and millions of Americans asked, “Why? Why, God? Why…didn’t… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Once it had been simple. Civil rights supporters knew who their enemies were: special interests such as the real estate associations (who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“One of the lessons I have learned in trying to live with history is that for every repression, we have found a… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
“Within five years, the effects of the civil rights revolution were undeniable. Between 1964 and 1969, the percentage of African American adults… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist. — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination. — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
“He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
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