There's good reason to be excited. You have the first woman running who is qualified, and a very attractive African-American who has… — Joe Biden 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
If Barack Obama now, or some black person in the future, should become president, neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton would be… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say. — Walter Lippmann 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
Unless modern civilization is a failure, it is entirely feasible and practicable for two races in such essential political, economic and religious… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
In 1978, Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act after hearings exposed the F.B.I.'s egregious practice of illegally spying on civil rights… — Asha Rangappa Copy Share Image
I know I'm going back some decades, but I'll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few Black kids in… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders… — Noreena Hertz Copy Share Image
“public statements condemning segregation, sharply worded telegrams to Washington, and meetings with White House officials—were demonstrably ineffectual. New and more dramatic measures… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
In terms of legacy, I'm not sure that I see some great historic deposit there, as a result of her passing our… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker 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
It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
“To treat disease you need medical license, To treat injustice being human is enough. To fly a plane you need pilot's license,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It's time for Congress to act, restore the Voting Rights Act, and take action to prevent voter disenfranchisem ent. As your next… — Alma Adams Copy Share Image
“For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ear of every Negro with piercing familiarity. This "Wait"… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights… — David Maraniss 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
