It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be. — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can quietly become a power no government can suppress, a power than can transform… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced… — Ahmet Ertegun Copy Share Image
I believe in civil rights, but not in special privilege laws to allow flaunting homosexuals to become role models for children. — Anita Bryant Copy Share Image
We have to put a stop to the idea that it is a part of everybody's civil rights to say whatever he… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry...” — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor! — David Duke Copy Share Image
They don't worship at the altar of forced busing and mandatory quotas. They don't believe you can remedy past discrimination by mandating… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
For those who have envisioned the State of Israel to be a democracy, which although primarily a Jewish polity for Jews is… — David Novak Copy Share Image
I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the… — Dick Gephardt Copy Share Image
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's… — Bob Edwards Copy Share Image
Everyone cares for disabled people, right? What they don't care for are genuine civil rights for disabled people. MARY JOHNSON tells the… — William Greider Copy Share Image
There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay… — Frank Rich Copy Share Image
Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
In terms of legacy, I'm not sure that I see some great historic deposit there, as a result of her passing our… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
“Even more systemic persecution was on the way, Messersmith wrote. He had learned that a draft existed of a new law that… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
The stark and tragic images of human suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have reminded us yet again that civil rights… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
“American culture quite naturally provides these ideological supports to those it favors and elects as fellow participants in the social and psychological… — Robert Kegan Copy Share Image
It is to law alone that men owe justice and liberty. It is this salutary organ, of the will of all which… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau 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
“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
The days of the heavyweight champion as civil rights leader are long gone. You think you'd see Ali rolling around on the… — Rich Eisen Copy Share Image
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. — Stokely Carmichael Copy Share Image
And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
Whereas each man claims his freedom as a matter of right, the freedom he accords to other men is a matter of… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
Civil rights activists and union activists shared not just common values and objectives but also common enemies. — Tom Perez Copy Share Image
Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid. — Mary Jane Patterson Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end. — Samuel Bowers Copy Share Image
“Something is terribly wrong in our society today when that blood washed banner of the Civil Rights movement which men and women… — Lawrence Sankar Copy Share Image
Victimize gun owners, then blame the victims. That's the Chicago Way, and it will never change as long as city bosses are… — Wayne LaPierre 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
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
I believe God was in Christ, not will be, perhaps, maybe if we're good boys and girls, it's over, it's done, we… — Will Davis Campbell Copy Share Image
Black lives, of course, matter. I spent 50 years of my life fighting for civil rights and for dignity, but if you… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
“It is only through examining history that you become aware of where you stand within the continuum of change.” — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. It is a weapon unique in history, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
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