I admired Truman, among many other things, because he integrated the Army. I admired JFK because the very first civil rights legislation… — Jed S. Rakoff Copy Share Image
Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
While nothing is perfect or complete in the battle for civil rights, the efforts of Dr. King and those like him have… — Skai Jackson Copy Share Image
On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the… — Thomas Perez Copy Share Image
“Initially, the purveyors of racism need no more than the silent acquiescence of the public ... [I]t is never too soon to… — Hans J. Massaquoi Copy Share Image
“Our freedoms are vanishing. If you do not get active to take a stand now against all that is wrong while we… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
We cannot have policies that punish people for taking action. Imagine the further harm it would have caused if the federal government… — Rashida Tlaib Copy Share Image
It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the… — Marian Wright Edelman 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
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
...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent… They must harass, debate,… — Lorraine Hansberry Copy Share Image
“The basic move of liberalism is to replace the social centre (normal people) with the margin (foreigners, minorities, deviants) forever. The stack… — Mike Maxwell Copy Share Image
A first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“There was one story that anger certainly lit the fuse of. In the 1960's, in my home town of Jackson, the civil… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who… — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
“Moreover, upon revelations that the Internal Revenue Service, under the president and his subordinates, had invidiously targeted conservative organizations for harassment and… — Andrew McCarthy Copy Share Image
A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“If we want truth and justice to rule our global village, there must be no hypocrisy. If there is no truth, then… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Do you know what it took for Balanchine to put me, a black man, on stage with a white woman? This was… — Arthur Mitchell Copy Share Image
The crucial role communists played in organizing industrial unions in the 1930s and struggling for social reforms, peace, and civil rights strengthened… — Michael Parenti Copy Share Image
The government has created a nation of paper criminals. People can be put in jail and lose civil rights and liberties through… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“King had marched six weeks earlier through the Mississippi town where the civil rights workers Goodman, Chaney, and Schwerner were murdered. He… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The vast majority of us don't want to face the fact that we're in the middle of a sweeping social revolution. In… — Johnny Carson Copy Share Image
I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
“Bopp had battered away at the foundation of modern campaign-finance law. He had succeeded in part by using the liberals’ language of… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
I explained to the president that I've been pleased with my conversations with the Attorney General and Civil Rights Division regarding their… — Roy Blunt Copy Share Image
In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of… — Neal Boortz Copy Share Image
“The birth of the civil rights movement was intimately bound up in the spread of jazz music throughout the United States. It… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Especially as the nation grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, structural racism and other deep challenges that affect students' educational experience, our Office… — Miguel Cardona Copy Share Image
“Civil rights protests were frequently depicted as criminal rather than political in nature, and federal courts were accused of excessive “lenience” toward… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The investigation of the rights of the slave has led me to a better understanding of my own. I have found the… — Angelina Grimke Copy Share Image
Abolition didn't just happen - people made it happen. Women's suffrage didn't just happen - people made it happen. Civil Rights legislation… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“When sins become civil rights, there is a temptation for Christians to keep our mouths shut and turn what is supposed to… — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
Throughout my years championing for civil rights, analyzing politics and advocating on behalf of the voiceless, I am disturbed the most when… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
It is distressing to me that we live in an age in which we still must fight to protect our civil rights… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
“In the South, we knew our adversary would stop at nothing to silence our activism. We knew we could never match his… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
The trouble is, SMers are allowing themselves to be defined by what they are not. We think, "Oh, so many people believe… — Laura Antoniou Copy Share Image
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