I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan… — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
In a free Government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Maybe, just maybe, there should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Alabama's Black Belt region played a central role in both the history of our great state and our country. We cannot lose… — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
I was involved in the civil rights movement way back in the late '50s and through the '60s and '70s. I was… — George Takei 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
If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Liberals say this over and over and over again to hide the actual history, which is why I go through the specifics… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Question: Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that someone like Obama, who fits the stereotype blacks once labeled as an Oreo --… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
We have to help decision makers realize that women's reproductive health rights are civil rights and that women need to be free… — Maggie Hassan Copy Share Image
Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
Jews allow to steal lands from Palestinians, only because they are Jews, and those are Palestinian. I want to repeat it, because… — Udi Aloni Copy Share Image
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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Connecticut is proud of the human rights legacy of Thomas Dodd, and the work of the University of Connecticut to build on… — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
I heard the prophet Joseph Smith say the time would come when this nation would so far depart from its original purity,… — Eliza R. Snow 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
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also… — Dan Wakefield Copy Share Image
I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person. I… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Vice President Mondale devoted himself to championing the civil rights of all Americans and worked to ensure that everyone has opportunity to… — Ned Lamont Copy Share Image
I never aspired to the local political fiefdom thing that a lot of people ascribed me to. I saw myself as a… — Al Sharpton 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
“Fore more than a decade - from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s - conservatives systematically and strategically linked opposition to civil… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
“In simplicity is such guiding truth. I turn again to the spirituals. “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine”… — Elizabeth Alexander Copy Share Image
Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and… — Michel Martin Copy Share Image
You are further to declare that we hold sacred the rights of conscience, and may promise to the whole people, solemnly in… — Roger Sherman Copy Share Image
My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
Well, there’s 10 — there’s 10 different — there’s 10 different titles, you know, to the Civil Rights Act, and nine out… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Other generations faced big challenges: the Industrial Revolution with its sweeping social and economic changes; abolishing slavery; defeating fascism; establishing civil rights… — John Rogers Copy Share Image
When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My dad spent most of the '50s and early '60s actually acting as sort of an advance man for the Justice Department,… — Bill Foster Copy Share Image
It's not often that you get to read something that just feels very original for a star but also something that feels… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
“As historian Gerald McKnight observes, “King was proposing nothing less than a radical transformation of the Civil Rights Movement into a populist… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Jimmy never met Joe Louis before that trial, only the jury didn’t know that. But Jimmy was strong for civil rights. That… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
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