Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized. — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Bill of Rights: (n.) official tally of how much our rights cost to keep.” — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The legislative powers of government reach actions only and not opinions. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
[Democrats] are not handling the John Lewis flap the right way, clearly. John Lewis is a hero and a civil rights hero. — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
“If the system were designed to protect adoptees, why do so many have to fight for their rights?” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right… — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
Black power got to moving so fast that we miscalculated the fallout. I certainly have to take some of the responsibility of… — Cleveland Sellers Copy Share Image
To be able to think freely, a man must be certain that no consequence will follow whatever he writes. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
With The King Center as her base, my mother pressed on to fulfill a role that changed lives and legislation. She was… — Bernice King Copy Share Image
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“Shout out to the noisemakers. Our world needs your voices. Make noise for justice. Make noise for inclusion. Make noise for empathy.… — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't… — Nate Parker Copy Share Image
If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
States' rights, as our forefathers conceived it, was a protection of the right of the individual citizen. Those who preach most frequently… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“They listened to a series of speeches by civil rights luminaries, capped off by a rousing, crowd-pleasing address by Martin Luther King.… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“The SNCC base of operation, at the corner of Jackson and High Streets, was in the heart of the black community in… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition, and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Just five days now before Donald Trump becomes president of the United States after the most intense week yet of this transition.It… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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