“Democrats have to continue championing civil rights, human rights, and other issues that are part of our march toward a more perfect… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
The American people are much more practical than Republican lawmakers on equal pay, on the minimum wage, on same-sex marriage, and on… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
“Why do we apologize for advocating for ourselves? Why do we apologize for taking up space that we are entitled to? Why… — Elizabeth Tambascio Copy Share Image
I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
“Here, you take the Naskar Pen, now go lead with the Dream of the King - from fractured past to conscious dawn,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize -… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Black community, I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have written 13 books, full of my ideas about a variety of issues - from black women, to hip-hop culture, to… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“[H]ate-crime legislation was enacted to give special protections to select constituencies, and, as practiced, it makes certain people more valuable than others… — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
I say further that for this great legislative body to ignore the Constitution and the fundamental concepts of our governmental system is… — Barry Goldwater Copy Share Image
“Sometime the witch hunting takes on atrocious dimensions — the Nazi persecution of Jews, the Salem witch trials, the Ku Klux Klan… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
We have a ways to go here, but elections have consequences ... I think that our Republican colleagues, the Republican National Party,… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing. I answered an ad that the Presbyterian Church of Chicago… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“Within five years, the effects of the civil rights revolution were undeniable. Between 1964 and 1969, the percentage of African American adults… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“This is not about you. Nobody gives a shit whether you like pot or hate it. This is a race issue. It's… — Bruce Barcott Copy Share Image
Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“One of the lessons I have learned in trying to live with history is that for every repression, we have found a… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The NRA is interested in protecting the civil rights of Americans, not protecting the ability of terrorists to get guns. — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
Even if being gay was a choice... so what? People choose to be assholes and they can get married! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Mass incarceration—not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement—is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
No provision in our Constitution ought to be dearer to man than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprises… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Where race is concerned, America has had a horrible, a wretched history and that came to account in the 1960s, with the… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
The 21st century for the black community is about building human capital. That is the undone business. That is the unmet need.… — Amy Wax Copy Share Image
I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement. — David Price Copy Share Image
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era. — Wesley Morris Copy Share Image
Rock 'n' roll was uniting black kids and white kids, and rock 'n' roll is not being given credit... for being just… — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
Opening a complaint for investigation in no way implies that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) has made a determination about the… — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“Lions don't leave society in the hands of government. Government is second in command - civilians, chief commander.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
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