The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again. — Ira Glasser Copy Share Image
The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets. — Hoyt W. Fuller Copy Share Image
The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
Always remember Rahm Emanuel and those of his ilk who are opposed to our fundamental civil right to keep and bear arms… — Wayne LaPierre Copy Share Image
Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society. — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
To have a show have lawyers fighting civil rights cases week in and week out, I think it's exactly what we need. — Danny Strong Copy Share Image
Stop and frisk - whether done while walking down the street or while driving a car - is a civil rights violation. — Chesa Boudin Copy Share Image
[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement. — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in… — Bruce Hornsby Copy Share Image
“It was said by Abraham Lincoln that Ms. Stowe's novel, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, started the great civil war, the it can be… — Alabama Jane Brown Copy Share Image
I believe that what I've worked for - women and children, civil rights against poverty, trying to level the playing field for… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
It's ludicrous that my friends in California aren't able to legally get married. It's a civil rights issue. In 20 years we're… — Busy Philipps Copy Share Image
I don't want Breonna Taylor to become the Claudette Colvin of the Black Lives Matter era. I don't want Ahmaud Arbery to… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
I went to Zanzibar on holiday and there was a lot there about civil rights and there was a museum, where there… — Andre Gray Copy Share Image
[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Martin didn't start the Civil Rights Movement, he was chosen to head it. You didn't start the movement, but in your actions… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
Probably, the nature of homophobia will never be widely interrogated, while we will continue to be excluded from school curricula, subjected to… — Sarah Schulman Copy Share Image
Jim Jones started out as a civil rights crusader in Indianapolis. As a young preacher in the mid-50s, he used members of… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
“The belief in the power of "institutional racism" allows black civil rights leaders to denounce America as a "racist" society, when it… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
“On February 7, President Johnson met at the White House with five black leaders, including Frederick Douglass, who came to lobby for… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... I am the hopeful black woman who was… — Common Copy Share Image
Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we… — Harry Belafonte 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
We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have… — Chuck Woolery Copy Share Image
“Black power showed up in different ways, depending on the goals of the group.” — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
I knew someone had to take the first step. So I made up my mind not to move. — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
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