Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and… — John Yarmuth Copy Share Image
The advent of the civil rights movement during the 50s and 60s made it very plain crystal clear to me that we… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
You know, as a child of Palestinian immigrants, again, every corner of my district is a reminder of the civil rights movement,… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Kings or parliaments could not give the rights essential to happiness... We claim them from a higher source - from the King… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
What I'm slowly realizing is that I believe that most of us felt that we could relax a little bit after November… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Today on MLK DAY, please remember those who marched when it was illegal to march, participated in sit-ins in restaurants like the… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
I spent my entire career trying to protect the Constitution, the civil rights and the civil liberties of American citizens and people… — Barbara Jordan Copy Share Image
“The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
“Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
Evan Wolfson is a dear friend of mine. Almost more than any other, Evan is responsible for bringing the issue of marriage… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
In 2017, Trump pardoned Joe Arpaio, an Arizona sheriff who was ordered by a federal court to stop racially profiling and was… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
Gay marriage will be universally accepted in time. But if I may be so bold as to say to gays and lesbians,… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
“You cannot stand for civil rights + not support gay marriage. You cannot stand for human rights + not support gay marriage.… — Bernard Schaffer Copy Share Image
When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a… — Kendrick Meek Copy Share Image
“In matters of human rights, ethics, morality, reason, righteousness, philosophy and theology, white people must be seen, not heard - unless you've… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I would not have suffered my name to have been used by my friends on anywise as President of the United States,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“Many black and poor people, moreover, had become politicized by the civil rights movement and had begun to develop higher expectations from… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Commission should never have been brought into existence. It has been most prejudiced in its viewpoint, and has fomented… — John Sparkman Copy Share Image
The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history,… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
“The evolution of national unity and equal rights is all about what America represents as a nation today: a manifestation of the… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
There's a pattern of the pathway opening in a certain way. We stared thinking, there's so many wonderful films about civil rights… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
We need a modern people's lobby that empowers all of us to choose our leaders and set our agenda. Imagine voting for… — Mark Pincus Copy Share Image
Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one's thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“There are many fake memes floating about the internet, one of them misquotes me saying - 'spare the toilet, spoil the floor.'… — Abhijit Naskar 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
