As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive. — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
It really did take Billy Lucas's suicide to wake me up to, kind of, the damage of the success of the LGBT… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration! — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
... being a feminist means that you believe in civil rights and social justice. — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue.... Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the modern Southern GOP was born. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized. — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
We are not asking for your permission, we are asking for our Rights... It's not for you to give, it's for us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
My earliest memories are when my father was the attorney general at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. We would go… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
To those who say, my friends, to those who say, that we are rushing this issue of civil rights, I say to… — Hubert H. Humphrey Copy Share Image
Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it. — Gary Johnson 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
“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
Bolivia was the first country to stop hyperinflation in a democracy without depriving people of their civil rights and without violating human… — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Far from fading away, it appears that prisons are here to stay. And despite the unprecedented levels of incarceration in the African… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
... the outcome of the Clarence Thomas hearings and his subsequent appointment to the Supreme Court shows how misguided, narrow notions of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
