President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“France took a statist turn very early, so speaking up for liberty meant speaking against the state. In America, given the centrality… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today. — David Harris Copy Share Image
“This is about Us, with a capital U; everybody who looks like us, feels like us, and is experiencing this pain with… — Angie Thomas Copy Share Image
Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls was made all about drugs, when to most of us, that just meant pot and magic… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Missing from the national conversation are voices of pro-immigration reformers and civil rights leaders, who can speak on behalf of those who… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a… — W. E. B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough. — Thurgood Marshall Copy Share Image
I have often asked Americans wherein they consider their freedom superior to that of the English, but have never found them able… — James Bryce 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
All Americans owe a debt of gratitude to Dr. King for his bravery and commitment to civil rights and nonviolence that changed… — Eliot Engel Copy Share Image
Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
There's a lot of hip-hop that's oriented toward a progressive view of America because it's oriented toward a civil rights progress and… — Ari Melber Copy Share Image
Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
I think that some of the greatest muckrakers and some of the greatest investigative journalists of all time had strong feelings about… — Pete Earley Copy Share Image
“Civil rights is just one battlefield in the real war of the left, which is the war against America itself. The big… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“Initially, the purveyors of racism need no more than the silent acquiescence of the public ... [I]t is never too soon to… — Hans J. Massaquoi Copy Share Image
The tyranny of the many would be when one body takes over the rights of others, and then exercises its power to… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
My friend Patsy Mink was a champion for social and economic justice, equality and civil rights for women and marginalized communities. She… — Mazie Hirono Copy Share Image
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist. — Jackie Kennedy 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
