I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights. — London Breed Copy Share Image
We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say. — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the… — John Hume Copy Share Image
Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our… — Frank Lautenberg Copy Share Image
We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In the Catholic view of things, abortion is a justice issue, not an issue of sexual morality... it is a civil rights… — George Weigel 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
In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
Like the majority of Atlanta's residents, I am Black. Our city helped birth the modern civil rights movement, and I am the… — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. No, the only tired… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
My parents took me to the first March on Washington, the first big march for civil rights, in '63. So I was… — Marky Ramone Copy Share Image
Census data is used to determine more than $675 billion in federal funding; it is a demographic Rosetta Stone that is referenced… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
I was from my little perch in a prep school I saw the civil rights movement and it was defining the moral… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I am having nothing to do with this so-called civil rights bill. The liberal left-wingers have passed it. Now let them employ… — George Wallace Copy Share Image
Mr. President, passage of this bill will visit the heel of oppression on all the people, vitiate their constitutional shield against tyranny,… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women… — Anthea Butler 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 situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Well, maybe there are one or two things about the double jeopardy concept that are overlooked. I could be charged with violating… — Ashley Judd Copy Share Image
I think it is a must for young people and generations yet to come, to understand, to feel, to touch, to almost… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“Now. 1973. Exactly." He tipped back in his chair, his arms folded across his chest. "So much changed in the sixties, the… — Susan Richards Shreve Copy Share Image
“The wounding legacy of segregation and growing up knowing adults who had worked for civil rights and equal opportunities for African Americans… — Chelsea Clinton Copy Share Image
When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Well, here you had a city that was selling more cars than ever before, that had this wondrous music being created, that… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Most of us tend to view childhood as a time of carefree pleasure. Those of us who have looked at the real… — Richard Farson Copy Share Image
“You see, women have been essential to every great move of God. Yes, Moses led the Isaelites out of Egypt, but only… — Stasi Eldredge Copy Share Image
Civil rights for Blacks, and gay rights for gays are two different things. — Vernon Jones Copy Share Image
The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets. — Hoyt W. Fuller Copy Share Image
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