The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other. — Nick Nolte Copy Share Image
I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and… — Alan Autry Copy Share Image
I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil… — Vicki Sue Robinson Copy Share Image
“Innovation is important, but what kind of a moronic species races to put a man on the moon, before it takes its… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to… — Arthur Goldberg Copy Share Image
The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among… — Lyman Trumbull Copy Share Image
Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
“Rep. John Lewis, Georgia Democrat and a civil rights leader during the 1960s, was one of those calling on the president for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The anger that was coursing through America deeply worried her. Although she was too young to remember the beginnings of the civil… — John Sandford Copy Share Image
This provision (the 4th Amendment) speaks for itself. Its plain object is to secure the perfect enjoyment of that great right of… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
I've always found the rhetoric of mainstream civil rights leaders and organizations to be far too timid, accommodationist, and gradualist. It always… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Civil libertarian activists are found overwhelmingly on the left. Their right-wing brethren have been concerned with issues more important than civil rights,… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we… — Patricia J. Williams Copy Share Image
This was a very progressive group of clergy who foresaw the race riots that were going to take place when Dr. King… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
Once again, we are thrilled to be hosting this amazing gathering for LGBT families from across the country. Our families are an… — Jennifer Chrisler Copy Share Image
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. ...under the republican forms… — James Madison Copy Share Image
“In his campaign for the presidency, Reagan mastered the "excision of the language of race from conservative public discourse"… For example, when… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“The Great Activist (Sonnet) The world doesn't need another climate summit, the world needs a climate summon, and not from some fair-weather… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!" — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
“Barack Obama so spooked the bigoted whites of this country that we are now faced with a racist explicitness that we haven’t… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights. — Jennifer Chiaverini Copy Share Image
The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
My mother supported me from the beginning and never said you should be an activist or civil rights leader or minister. — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
“He had done regular live concerts from San Quentin jail until the civil rights people got him under the Cruel and Unusual… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I thought I might find the real me in Oxford. Civil rights made me accept being a black intellectual. There was no… — Stuart Hall Copy Share Image
I'm not a civil rights activist or an activist in general. I just think we all carry a responsibility based on who… — Trevor Lawrence Copy Share Image
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist. — Jackie Kennedy Copy Share Image
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.” — Aniruddha Sastikar Copy Share Image
I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely… — Norman Granz Copy Share Image
Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
If we buy into the notion that somehow property rights are less important, or are in conflict with, human or civil rights,… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
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