“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
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
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
Okay, so here's my question: When did civility become incompatible with protest? Why do some people consider civility an antonym - anathema,… — Steven Petrow Copy Share Image
The man who loves his country on its own account, and not merely for its trappings of interest or power, can never… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself… — Elijah Muhammad Copy Share Image
Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial… — Randy Sandke 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
“Sometime the witch hunting takes on atrocious dimensions — the Nazi persecution of Jews, the Salem witch trials, the Ku Klux Klan… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
We have a ways to go here, but elections have consequences ... I think that our Republican colleagues, the Republican National Party,… — Bob Menendez Copy Share Image
I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
“A week later fifty-four sit-ins were under way in fifteen cities in nine states in the South.60 It was obvious from the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
“One of the lessons I have learned in trying to live with history is that for every repression, we have found a… — Joan Nestle Copy Share Image
“Once it had been simple. Civil rights supporters knew who their enemies were: special interests such as the real estate associations (who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most codes extend their definitions of treason to acts not really against one's country. They do not distinguish between acts against the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“the black church helped African Americans survive the harshest forms of oppression and developed a revolutionary appeal for universal communal spirituality. The… — 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
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
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
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 never been a passive political supporter. My grandmother, Betty Kleitz , god bless her soul, was from Tuskegee, Alabama, took parts… — Killer Mike 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
“Contrary to unwritten political law of abuse, Civilians are not the doormats of democracy. Civilians are the doors, civilians are the buildings,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece… — Andrew Breitbart Copy Share Image
My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
Incidentally, the next time some war-mongering wise-ass tries to tell you that one reason we're in the Middle East is to enhance… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
This bill, by vesting the power to withhold or terminate Federal funds, creates a concentration of power of economic coercion unequaled in… — Strom Thurmond Copy Share Image
Experiments in digitizing and running neural wetware under emulation are well established; some radical libertarians claim that, as the technology matures, death… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
One of the biggest issues that we face is that we have people who have their own particular concerns, whether it's on… — William P. Leahy Copy Share Image
I remember as a boy when the conversation on civil rights was won in the South. I remember a time when one… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
In 1948, northern liberals inserted a civil rights plank into the national Democratic platform, prompting a walkout of Southern delegations - which… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
“During extraordinary historical moments—both world wars, the aftermath of the Great Depression, or the peak of the civil rights era—the usual categories… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
I don't like calling myself a "feminist" only because I don't think I've done anything active enough to call myself one. It'd… — Bo Burnham Copy Share Image
America in the age of Donald Trump is more permissive of explicit racism than it's been at any point since the civil… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
