I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam. — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero. — Harry Enten Copy Share Image
Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them. — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
“If you think human rights is a political matter, what you think does not matter.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm from Texas, so I'm an LBJ fan. He passed more civil-rights bills than any other president. He made a mistake in… — Barbara Barrie Copy Share Image
Progress is possible, but it is fragile - and across our country, the battles for our most basic civil rights rage on. — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced… — Emanuel Celler Copy Share Image
“The western world is a dishonest society of non-disclosure agreements, cash for silence, and the illegal removal of civil rights from those… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of… — Ron Dellums Copy Share Image
Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies...but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr.” — Mark Long Copy Share Image
Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance,… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
“But what's braver?' Emmanuel said. 'Naming the bigots and possibly being killed for it? Or living in silence in order to protect… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
“Those who distinguish between civil and theological intolerance are mistaken, in my opinion. Those two types of intolerance are inseparable. It is… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Another group with a vital role to play in the present crisis is the white Northern liberals. The racial issue that we… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Judge Carter sat in stony silence, completely unmoved. At the end of the trial, he pronounced King guilty of conspiracy to violate… — Danielle L. McGuire Copy Share Image
“When the law regulates behavior it plays an indirect part in molding public sentiment. The enforcement of the law is itself a… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
There's no point going to a country which is torturing people to ask them to stop if they can point out that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
“I remember it was a quiet, heat-hushed evening. Walking with Mrs. McDonald up a dusty, unpaved road toward her modest home, I… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that the greatest triumph of any human rights movement, be it fighting for racial, religious, sexual or gender… — Kate Griffin Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that. — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights. — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals. — Kenya Barris Copy Share Image
There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me. — James Meredith Copy Share Image
“How did I make a living? I haven't. I have eked out an existence." - Ella Baker” — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
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