“When sins become civil rights, there is a temptation for Christians to keep our mouths shut and turn what is supposed to… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“It is, indeed, one of the basic moral blindspots of American conservatism that its intellectual and leadership energy have never been focused… — Martin Kilson Copy Share Image
When I think about our HBCUs, I think of icons like my mentor Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina State graduate, who fought… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen. — Victoria Gray Adams Copy Share Image
I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain… — Evita Peron Copy Share Image
“The civil rights generation is exiting the American stage—not in a haze of nostalgia but in a cloud of gloom, troubled by… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
Project 2025 threatens to reverse the clock on progress in America and undermine the very fabric of our society by threatening the… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
As a Westerner, the child of civil rights and anti-war activists, I embraced Islam not in abandonment of my core values, drawn… — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
“A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.” — Sandra Day O'Connor Copy Share Image
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Because I'm a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and humans suffer and die alike. Violence causes… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
“A group trying to curtail the civil rights of gays and lesbians portrays itself, in this rhetorical twist, as victims of an… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we… — James L. Farmer, Jr Copy Share Image
After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us. — Laura Moser Copy Share Image
“I had no way of predicting that Selma to Montgomery was indeed to be the last great civil rights march of the… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement,… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
A single good government becomes... a blessing to the whole earth, its welcome to the oppressed restraining within certain limits the measure… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
