The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation. — Fredric Wertham Copy Share Image
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society. — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Dump all autocratic nonsense of law-abidance, Tell the right from wrong by conscience rule. If you want human rights to reign supreme,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today. — David Harris Copy Share Image
Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights. We have to recognize that… — Dorothy Height Copy Share Image
Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen. — Martin O'Malley Copy Share Image
There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
The ADA was a landmark civil rights legislation. It was a bill of rights for persons with disabilities, a formal acknowledgement that… — Valerie Jarrett Copy Share Image
The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this… — Dolores Huerta Copy Share Image
“In 1866, Congress enforced the abolition of slavery by passing a Civil Rights Act, prohibiting actions that it deemed perpetuated the characteristics… — Richard Rothstein Copy Share Image
America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
We're in Trump times - we're in the time this misogynist hate clown is the leader of the free world, and when… — Stephen Marche Copy Share Image
Old or young, healthy as a horse or a person with a disability that hasn't kept you down, man or woman, Native… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
“For more than a hundred years the Republic of South Africa had been the center of racial strife. Men of good will… — Arthur C. Clarke 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
“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
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
It iscrucial that we understand lesbian/feminism in the deepest, most radical sense: as that love for ourselves and other women, that commitment… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I've had a chance to meet some of my civil rights heroes and, more recently, members of the young generation around [Barack]… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I earned my spurs in the civil rights movement. All my life, not for political but for religious reasons, moral reasons, that's… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
“If you won't stand up against those who tear us apart with their lies, hate, and bigotry, expect to do a lot… — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“First thousand were an accident, Second thousand, a promise. Answer to traditional animosity, Antidote to doting prejudice.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Just because there is one bad apple in the barrow, does not mean all the apples are bad. If you dig into… — Angela Brown Copy Share Image
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We simply do not catch a high enough percentage of users to make the law a real threat, although we do catch… — John Kaplan Copy Share Image
“National security trumps a lot. It can trampke civil rights. It can denude personal liberties. But it cannot and never will triumph… — David Baldacci Copy Share Image
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
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