“The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8. — Kamala Harris Copy Share Image
You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age… — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
Where is the civil rights groundswell on behalf of stronger marriages that will allow more children to grow up in two-parent families… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The first duty of government is to protect the citizen from assault. Unless it does this, all the civil rights and civil… — Richard Viguerie Copy Share Image
You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor. — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
It is time enough, for the rightful purposes of civil government, for its officers to interfere [in the propagation of religious teachings]… — Thomas Jefferson 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
What Malcolm X did not know is that back in 1962, a collaborator of Alex Haley, fellow named - a journalist named… — Manning Marable 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
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
Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an… — Glenn Beck 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
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
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Just five days now before Donald Trump becomes president of the United States after the most intense week yet of this transition.It… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able… — James Bryce Copy Share Image
To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
“And then the foreman told another boss to put me down in the furnace pit. "Nigger can take the heat better," he… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“The civil rights revolution provoked new declarations of ethnic identity by the now long-resident "new migration" from southern and eastern Europe--Italians, Greeks,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr Copy Share Image
Dr. King’s policy was that nonviolence would achieve the gains for black people in the United States. His major assumption was that… — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
“The revolution had come too late for him. He was in his midforties when the Civil Rights Act was signed and close… — Isabel Wilkerson Copy Share Image
I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King. — George Takei Copy Share Image
The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all… — Alicia Garza 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
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
Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to… — Charles B. Rangel Copy Share Image
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I would much rather engage people in a conversation about deregulation and reversals of women's rights and civil rights and LGBT rights… — Masha Gessen Copy Share Image
Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand? — Patricia Schroeder Copy Share Image
Home to some of our nation's civil rights leaders, Harvard Law is not a bigoted hub of racism but a place where… — Kayleigh McEnany Copy Share Image
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just… — Bernice Johnson Reagon 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
The rights of the people to the exercise and fruits of their own industry can never be protected against the selfishness of… — Thomas Jefferson 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
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we… — James L. Farmer, Jr Copy Share Image
“It [freedom] rings bells to remind humanity that the most precious gifts in life––like children and love and time––must never be taken… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
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