They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways. — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. — Edison Haines Copy Share Image
The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement. — Wadada Leo Smith Copy Share Image
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice. — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the… — George Takei Copy Share Image
It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I… — Joe Baca Copy Share Image
I care about affordable housing. I care about bus routes. I care about small business. I care about schools. These are not… — Linda Sarsour Copy Share Image
The Democrats pretended to care about black people for about five minutes to help their electoral process, and then civil rights suddenly… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
From the end of Reconstruction through the civil rights revolution, the South was an almost uniformly Democratic region. In 1936, for example,… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
“His in-laws, Erastus and Eloise Oppenheimer, lived in Ezra, Texas, a town tucked so deep in the woods of East Texas that… — Sharon Bayliss 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
I've always stood for my people, with my people, but some guys just don't have voices like that. I don't like the… — P. J. Tucker Copy Share Image
In California, Jim Jones even staged a shooting of himself. The lesson of this was two-fold. One, that he was a god… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
You have to have a multipronged approach and a significant part of that is educating the public and change the culture so… — David D. Cole Copy Share Image
“Black-Jewish Alliance, What Went Wrong?, Murray Friedman explains how the Civil Rights Movement was Jewish. First of all, it was based on… — E. Michael Jones Copy Share Image
Mary O'Neal used to say that I was teaching her course in disguise, as she said "in cultural disguise." What she meant… — David C. Driskell Copy Share Image
Despite all of the civil rights gains of the past several decades, when it comes to economic opportunity, African Americans and Latinos… — Sasha Abramsky Copy Share Image
As Paretsky detailed in her short memoir Writing in an Age of Silence (2007), early optimism buoyed by the civil rights movement… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
I want some help on this. I'm being very honest, i want some ideas, as somebody who was arrested 50 years ago… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“American culture quite naturally provides these ideological supports to those it favors and elects as fellow participants in the social and psychological… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
“But where Lincoln’s absent hand was felt most keenly was in race relations. Black codes were passed in state after state across… — Jay Winik Copy Share Image
“Smoke was a person with a sense of history. Do you know what I mean?" ...in truth, I DID know what she… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
“Racial stereotyping. For Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, the sin of white racism was stereotyping all black people… — Kim R. Holmes 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
“There is another, grimmer history to the filibuster, though, one that carries special relevance for me. For almost a century, the filibuster… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Far from fading away, it appears that prisons are here to stay. And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African… — Michelle Alexander 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
Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin Copy Share Image
I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of… — Ron Dellums Copy Share Image
Progress is possible, but it is fragile - and across our country, the battles for our most basic civil rights rage on. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about… — Morris Dees Copy Share Image
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African American community, the civil rights community is oddly quiet.” — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
