This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother… — Yaya DaCosta Copy Share Image
Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement… — Brandon Victor Dixon Copy Share Image
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The psychedelic issue is a civil rights and civil liberties issue. It is an issue concerned with the most basic of human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights. — David Duke Copy Share Image
“It's illegal to deny people their records due to race or gender. Adoptees deserve the same rights and protections.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation. — Samuel Bowers Copy Share Image
There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
“she quickly hired a housekeeper and a kitchen staff for the White House and then threw herself into what mattered far more… — Laura Shapiro Copy Share Image
You probably know the name of Rosa Parks. You probably know that her refusal to move to the colored section in the… — Michel Martin Copy Share Image
The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When… — Shirley Chisholm Copy Share Image
Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“One in three young African American men is currently under the control of the criminal justice system—in prison, in jail, on probation,… — michelle alexander Copy Share Image
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
“Welch became more confident that the press was reporting his words more accurately, but that worked against him because his discourses on… — Edward H. Miller Copy Share Image
I think that it is true that Eleanor Roosevelt, by being so active on that front, contributed to that impression very substantially.… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
“To great effect, Reagan echoed white frustration in race-neutral terms through implicit racial appeals. His 'color-blind' rhetoric on crime, welfare, taxes, and… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
“Too few of us from the Black Power generation and the movements to take power in cities through the election of black… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“[People] are beginning to awaken to an idea we gave meaning to in the sixties: We are one people, one family, the… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
My great grandmother threw herself in front of a bus. The police tried to say she was committed suicide but the family… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I… — Deval Patrick Copy Share Image
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
You know, civil rights is great and everything, but a lot of people don't realize that plumbers in the South make less… — Andy Kindler Copy Share Image
Bolivia was the first country to stop hyperinflation in a democracy without depriving people of their civil rights and without violating human… — Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“It speaks volumes when people who are discriminated against go on to discriminate against others.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents… — Janis Ian Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
“Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
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