There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle. — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Being an American is about having the right to be who you are. Sometimes that doesn't happen. — Herb Ritts Copy Share Image
“Bigotry and sexism destroy the unity needed for a nation to live.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
As a civil rights attorney and the daughter of a preacher, I understand I have a debt to pay. — Jasmine Crockett Copy Share Image
“Lack of inclusivity in society is not a bug, it's a feature of western eurocentric education.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
A people who extend civil liberties only to preferred groups start down the path either to dictatorship of the right or the… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Liberty, whether natural, civil, or political, is the lawful power in the individual to exercise his corresponding rights. It is greatly favored… — Henry Campbell Black Copy Share Image
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act. — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.” — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race… — Antonin Scalia Copy Share Image
A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a… — Lyndon B Johnson Copy Share Image
I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about… — Morris Dees Copy Share Image
If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Prior to civil rights, the Democratic Party had been defined by an increasingly untenable alliance of ideological opposites - integrationist Northern liberals… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
After marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma as a young man, John Lewis went on to become a legendary leader… — Kay Ivey Copy Share Image
There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women… — Anna Holmes Copy Share Image
“Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands… — Barbara Ehrenreich 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
“..I began speaking.. First, I took issue with the media's characterization of the post-Katrina New Orleans as resembling the third world as… — Billy Sothern Copy Share Image
“American officials estimated millions would be spent to develop internal security systems, and State Department officials expected the Cuban government to increase… — Keith Bolender Copy Share Image
“And that brings me to one last point. I've got a simple message for all the dedicated and patriotic federal workers who… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Things have come a long way in Mississippi. That’s the usual shorthand. Perhaps nowhere else in America has made more progress in… — Richard Grant Copy Share Image
A government regulating itself by what is wise and just for the many, uninfluenced by the local and selfish views of the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The House adjourned without voting on the bill, but the following year a similar bill—mandating equality in hotels and restaurants open to… — H.W. Brands Copy Share Image
“American capitalism is derided for its superficial banality, yet it has unleashed profound, convulsive social change. Condemned as mindless materialism, it has… — Brink Lindsey Copy Share Image
I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up. — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless. — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement. — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
…we ain't doing civil rights here. We just telling stories like they really happen. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
“I did what I thought was right. I'm not trying to win any popularity contest.” — Sue Eakin Copy Share Image
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive. — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
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