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
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 government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Because when we look at the modern civil rights movement under the leadership of my father and the team that he developed,… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
“These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther… — Louis Menand Copy Share Image
“3. Serving Two Masters Derrick Bell has pointed out a third structure that impedes reform, this time in law. To litigate a… — Richard Delgado Copy Share Image
In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent… They must harass, debate,… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
“The basic move of liberalism is to replace the social centre (normal people) with the margin (foreigners, minorities, deviants) forever. The stack… — Mike Maxwell Copy Share Image
“There was one story that anger certainly lit the fuse of. In the 1960's, in my home town of Jackson, the civil… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
If someone needs to express their gender in a way that is different, that is okay, and they should not be denied… — Laverne Cox Copy Share Image
There are many photos of Catholic priests and nuns marching in the Civil Rights movement, most notably at the March on Selma,… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“There is no such thing as a Christian commonwealth…. [N]either Pagan nor [Muslim], nor Jew, ought to be excluded from the civil… — Phyllis Goldstein Copy Share Image
In the 1950s, the black men and women and their white allies who fought for civil rights and basic human dignity could… — Joy Reid Copy Share Image
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice and… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Production of identity is a resistance element, an aggressive element. Both a refusal and an affirmation and an assertion, and certainly, we… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling… — Rachel Griffiths Copy Share Image
Every person with a pulse has a responsibility to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community that is on the front lines… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
It's clear that the laws intended to allow victims to have their cases heard - including our civil rights laws, our criminal… — Cal Cunningham Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I think everybody should get married. Boys and girls. Girls and boys. Boys and boys! Girls and girls! Shouldn't we all be… — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
I do not want to deny anyone their livelihood or civil rights. Who wants to discriminate against anybody... But when it comes… — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
A war of words escalated between the president-elect and a civil rights icon. Donald Trump fired back at democratic Congressman John Lewis… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of jobs and titles while working in politics. But at the end of the day, one thing has… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
“Keep struggling, o brave soldier - keep struggling till politicians become an extinct species and politics an extinct profession. The mission is,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
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