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
President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. — Danny Glover 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
Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay. — Nicholas Kristof Copy Share Image
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right? — Russell Simmons 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
The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented… — John Sparkman Copy Share Image
The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil… — Jack Kemp 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
We need a modern people's lobby that empowers all of us to choose our leaders and set our agenda. Imagine voting for… — Mark Pincus Copy Share Image
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
There's a pattern of the pathway opening in a certain way. We stared thinking, there's so many wonderful films about civil rights… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
“The evolution of national unity and equal rights is all about what America represents as a nation today: a manifestation of the… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
“You cannot stand for civil rights + not support gay marriage. You cannot stand for human rights + not support gay marriage.… — Bernard Schaffer Copy Share Image
Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
“When people are forced to respect civil rights and human rights or face legal consequences, they don't like it. Civil rights laws… — Arun Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
“Moreover, upon revelations that the Internal Revenue Service, under the president and his subordinates, had invidiously targeted conservative organizations for harassment and… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political… — Dean Baker Copy Share Image
When Kennedy could not get the civil rights bill passed - and he was the big liberal - Lyndon Johnson came in… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
All the civil rights leaders and people who died, black and white, you know, Mexican, Chinese, black, you name it, all the… — Rodney King Copy Share Image
“Since Ivy League admissions data is a notoriously classified commodity, when when Harvard officials said in previous years that alumni kids were… — John Larew Copy Share Image
“In 1963 activists demanding racial justice forced President Kennedy to come out for civil rights legislation. Within a year and a half… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should… — Michelle Alexander 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 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
“Most people remember COINTELPRO from the days of the Black Panthers, Yippies, and other revolutionary groups who threatened our government during the… — David Icke 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
“Advance Praise for THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS KIDNAPPING CASE: RACE, LAW, AND JUSTICE IN THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA "Michael Ross' The Great New… — Michael A. Ross Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is not about love, it's not about family, and it's not about civil rights. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!" — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights. — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights. — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image