I am above eighty years old ... I suppose I am about the only colored woman that goes about to speak for… — Sojourner Truth Copy Share Image
“Democrats have to continue championing civil rights, human rights, and other issues that are part of our march toward a more perfect… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“No individual or single organization can speak for nonwhite people, women, the world's colonized populations, workers, or any demographic category as a… — Tipu's Tiger Copy Share Image
“History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
“We all have a stake—equally. Because if we do not save the environment and save the Earth, then whatever we do in… — Anonymous 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
One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
“Fore more than a decade - from the mid-1950s until the late 1960s - conservatives systematically and strategically linked opposition to civil… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in history the name of God has been invoked on behalf of actions and movements that have ennobled the human soul… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
“Justice” [Sept. 15]: It appears that the outcome of the civil rights movement has been to replace “Blacks not welcome” with “This… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From our nation's founding to the Civil Rights movement, Virginians have always stood up to fight for their most foundational right -… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
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
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“Too few of us from the Black Power generation and the movements to take power in cities through the election of black… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“I watched as people went to the memorial reading the names. I started at the first entry from 1954. I read each… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“The sober truth is that the most important civil rights battles were fought and won four decades before the Obama presidency. The… — Jason L. Riley Copy Share Image
I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now,… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Governor Sanders showed true leadership and character by supporting civil rights for all during a time when many were not, His lasting… — Nathan Deal Copy Share Image
Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all… — Conor Oberst Copy Share Image
Maya Angelou, the famous African American poet, historian, and civil rights activist who is hailed be many as one of the great… — Michael N. Castle Copy Share Image
