I think if you are a black person or an Hispanic person, you are not as fond of Rudolph Giuliani as you… — Lynn Samuels Copy Share Image
Atheists have just as much civil right to teach atheism as Christians have to teach Christianity; agnostics have just as much right… — William Jennings Bryan Copy Share Image
This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and… — Elijah Cummings Copy Share Image
“Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
“In his campaign for the presidency, Reagan mastered the "excision of the language of race from conservative public discourse"… For example, when… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
The foundational principles of modern liberalism - civil rights and greater economic equality - took further strides during Johnson's presidency than any… — Neera Tanden Copy Share Image
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The simple truth is that there isn't a single civil right I would deny to an evangelical Christian. I've defended their freedom… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul. — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
You've got Hezbollah in Arizona. You've got Mexican drug cartels operating in Arizona. You've got the steady stream of illegals over the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the '60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
I do believe in local control. I do believe in state control, but we do have a responsibility to protect the civil… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
“The corporate reform movement has co-opted progressive themes and language in the service of radical purposes. Advocating the privatization of public education… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Food is an important lens onto the civil rights movement. One of the central issues of the movement was the right to… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Opening a complaint for investigation in no way implies that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has made a determination about the… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
“The basic move of liberalism is to replace the social centre (normal people) with the margin (foreigners, minorities, deviants) forever. The stack… — Mike Maxwell Copy Share Image
