With every civil right there has to be a corresponding civil obligation. — Edison Haines Copy Share Image
I knew someone had to take the first step and I made up my mind not to move. — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
“Your right to swing your arm leaves off where my right not to have my nose struck begins.” — John B. Finch Copy Share Image
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights. — Eldridge Cleaver Copy Share Image
The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry. — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools. — Andrew Cuomo Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute. — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
To me, I know that if we could pass the Civil Rights Act of '64 over 50 years ago, then we can… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being… — Victoria Gray Adams Copy Share Image
As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
“Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government. — Carles Puigdemont Copy Share Image
The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while. — Jean Harris Copy Share Image
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
“If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“King had marched six weeks earlier through the Mississippi town where the civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were murdered. He… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was… — Arthur Mitchell Copy Share Image
“There is another, grimmer history to the filibuster, though, one that carries special relevance for me. For almost a century, the filibuster… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Thus, the proclaimed goal of affirmative action advocates is to "level the playing field." It is defined this way to highlight the… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“The record is suffused with examples of groups and individuals being placed under government surveillance by virtue of their dissenting views and… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“As the rules of acceptable discourse changed, however, segregationists distanced themselves from an explicitly racist agenda. they developed instead the racially sanitized… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Racial stereotyping. For Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, the sin of white racism was stereotyping all black people… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
“To Malcolm X, thank you for teaching us the kind of self-love that can never be taken away, To Malcolm X, thank… — Dumisani Tafadzwa Mayele Copy Share Image
“Even more systemic persecution was on the way, Messersmith wrote. He had learned that a draft existed of a new law that… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
“Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs. — James L. Farmer, Jr Copy Share Image
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