For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough. — Tammy Bruce Copy Share Image
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
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My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and… — Martin Luther King, Jr 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
Race is not the stumbling block to progress it once was, in large part because the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made… — Norah Vincent Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends. — Jack Schlossberg Copy Share Image
“I am an educated black woman in a time when educated black people will be called upon to risk everything for the… — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
My friend Patsy Mink was a champion for social and economic justice, equality and civil rights for women and marginalized communities. She… — Mazie Hirono 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
I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
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My book has a pre - civil rights setting with a post - civil rights sensibility. I believe less and less that… — Ayana Mathis Copy Share Image
If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
The suggestion of denying any measure of their full political rights to such a great group of our population as the colored… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
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“Racial stereotyping. For Martin Luther King, Jr., and other civil rights leaders, the sin of white racism was stereotyping all black people… — Kim R. Holmes Copy Share Image
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
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“Smoke was a person with a sense of history. Do you know what I mean?" ...in truth, I DID know what she… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
Even as we continue to carry the banner of civil rights and environmental justice, we've also got to focus on many, many… — John Hickenlooper Copy Share Image
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The environment is the most important, the most fundamental, civil-rights issue… Four out of every five toxic-waste dumps in America is in… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
How do we preserve our civil rights, our traditions as a liberal democracy, in a time when government power is expanding and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute. — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our… — Rza Copy Share Image
I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country. — Herm Edwards Copy Share Image
Finally and long overdue, your people, oppressed and disgraced by hatred and maliciousness, have achieved justice: now you enjoy full citizen's rights,… — Franz Grillparzer Copy Share Image
European values, civil rights, freedom of speech, freedom of informatio,n and freedom of assembly are being violated by Spain's central government. — Carles Puigdemont Copy Share Image
The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while. — Jean Harris Copy Share Image
“Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it. -Andrew Young, author, civil rights activist, US congressman, mayor, and UN… — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
My work has been in the field of engaged Buddhism. That is my own practice, which began in 1965 that formed the… — Joan Halifax Copy Share Image
If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being… — Victoria Gray Adams Copy Share Image
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John Lewis' vital role in the civil rights movement will never be forgotten, and his legacy will forever be acknowledged by our… — Angela Stanton-King Copy Share Image
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