We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States.… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
It's so simple: Right to marriage is a civil right, which like all civil rights should not depend on what state you… — Annie Laurie Gaylor Copy Share Image
Quoting Stokely Carmichael (1941-1998) US civil rights leader We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their… — Harriet Tubman Copy Share Image
I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I always wondered why there weren't any films about Cesar Chavez. There are movies about other civil rights leaders in this country,… — Diego Luna Copy Share Image
Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back — Roy Wilkins Copy Share Image
The human rights community has focused very narrowly on political and civil rights for many decades, and with reason, but now we… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
It's not a question of being out of touch or traditional. It's a question of wanting to preserve marriage as uniquely between… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer.… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
By a declaration of rights, I mean one which shall stipulate freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce against… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Considering the great importance to the public liberty of the freedom of the press, and the difficulty of submitting it to very… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the… — Ned Sublette Copy Share Image
“I’m very fond of the concept of choice as the basis for sexual preference. This point of view is unpopular in an… — Patrick Califia Copy Share Image
“The civil rights generation is exiting the American stage—not in a haze of nostalgia but in a cloud of gloom, troubled by… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being – no colour prejudice like in Mississippi, no colour… — Paul Robeson 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
“Everybody is a terrorist, till you see the reformist (The Sonnet) Everybody is a president, till you see the first servant. Everybody… — Abhijit Naskar 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
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“While the Reconstruction Era was fraught with corruption and arguably doomed by the lack of land reform, the sweeping economic and political… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
From our nation's founding to the Civil Rights movement, Virginians have always stood up to fight for their most foundational right -… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
“The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.” — Tom Cardamone Copy Share Image
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership. — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
Any violation of civil rights will be aggressively pursued and prosecuted by my administration. No one will be above the law. — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“I had no way of predicting that Selma to Montgomery was indeed to be the last great civil rights march of the… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“God bless mood equalizers. and all moods are created equal. i am the fucking civil rights movement of moods” — John Green Copy Share Image
The leadership for civil rights has to take place in the White House or it is going to take place in the… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere. — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Justice needs money; it always has . . . whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil… — Ralph Nader 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
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence… — Bayard Rustin Copy Share Image
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand. — Alphonso Jackson Copy Share Image
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
I would want to go back to the civil rights movement and see how that was. With the information and knowledge I… — Storm Reid Copy Share Image
Planned Parenthood has been far more lethal to black lives than the KKK ever was. And the Democrat Party and the black… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
