Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is… — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it. — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights. — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
Everything hinges on education. Without it, you can't advocate for proper health care, for housing, for a civil rights bill that ensures… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. — James Madison Copy Share Image
When the civil rights are denying by the authorities, in a country.The people will be under the slavery , from the slavery… — Sumesh Nair Copy Share Image
LGBTQ Americans deserve a president who will always stand with them and protect their civil rights - without hesitation. — Kirsten Gillibrand Copy Share Image
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
As a result of that forgiveness, I will never criticize or attack any of your past actions or remarks concerning matters of… — James Carville Copy Share Image
I believe what Martin Luther King Jr. believed. You remember what the title of the March on Washington was? "Jobs and Freedom."… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I think it's really crucial to leave our American context, not only for a sense of individual freedom, but also to make… — Emily Raboteau Copy Share Image
The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied… — Tom Hayden Copy Share Image
If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain… — Denis Leary 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
We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology… — Janet Napolitano Copy Share Image
Today's decision affirms what we all know to be true — the U.S. Constitution guarantees the basic civil rights of all Americans,… — Chad Griffin Copy Share Image
Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
“In the 20th century, it became more and more the norm for judges to incorrectly instruct juries that they must consider only… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
This is a crucial time in the fight for corporate civil rights. Just look at the hateful signs at Occupy Wallstreet: 'Corporations… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for… — David Duke Copy Share Image
“A favorite liberal taunt is to accuse conservatives of clinging to an idealized past. Poor, right-wing Americans vaguely sense the world is… — Ann Coulter 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
“You see, women have been essential to every great move of God. Yes, Moses led the Isaelites out of Egypt, but only… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
“If you could have a gigantic billboard anywhere with anything on it, what would it say and why? Are there any quotes… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“On February 7, President Johnson met at the White House with five black leaders, including Frederick Douglass, who came to lobby for… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
“Of all the Islamic organizations in America, CAIR has risen to the top as the most visible, most outspoken defender of Muslims… — Brigitte Gabriel Copy Share Image
“Equal protection under the law is not a hard principle to convince Americans of. The difficulty comes in persuading them that it… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“As the rules of acceptable discourse changed, however, segregationists distanced themselves from an explicitly racist agenda. they developed instead the racially sanitized… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement. — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War. — Cecile Richards Copy Share Image
…we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
