I explained to the president that I've been pleased with my conversations with the Attorney General and Civil Rights Division regarding their… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
“Judge Carter sat in stony silence, completely unmoved. At the end of the trial, he pronounced King guilty of conspiracy to violate… — Danielle L. McGuire Copy Share Image
I also think we need unconventional political action, and I increasingly think that there is a need for people of faith to… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“Many black and poor people, moreover, had become politicized by the civil rights movement and had begun to develop higher expectations from… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“Sometime the witch hunting takes on atrocious dimensions — the Nazi persecution of Jews, the Salem witch trials, the Ku Klux Klan… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Justice John Marshall Harlan, who famously admonished his fellow jurists and the nation as a whole: “Our Constitution is color-blind, and neither… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights. — James Hansen Copy Share Image
In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement!… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
“We have an abundance of rape and violence against women in this country and on this Earth, though it’s almost never treated… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
“This is not about you. Nobody gives a shit whether you like pot or hate it. This is a race issue. It's… — Bruce Barcott Copy Share Image
The Underground Railroad was the first integrated civil rights movement. And it's a great example of when we work together, what we… — Misha Green Copy Share Image
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the… — David Talbot Copy Share Image
I think that for many of us, the years of the Civil Rights movements - Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy running for… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
Martin didn't start the Civil Rights Movement, he was chosen to head it. You didn't start the movement, but in your actions… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
You know, as a child of Palestinian immigrants, again, every corner of my district is a reminder of the civil rights movement,… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image