The concept of military necessity is seductively broad, and has a dangerous plasticity. Because they invariably have the visage of overriding importance,… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is necessarily… — Alan Barth Copy Share Image
In any event, any person from 2.0 down on the Tone Scale should not have, in any thinking society, any civil rights… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
In a lot of ways, civil rights division is the conscience of the Justice Department. You can almost measure what kind of… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“I am an American, proud to be an American, proud to be a black American. I’m not African-American. I’ve never been to… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
My family was very engaged in the world around us. My father was an African Methodist Episcopal minister and an immigrant from… — Gwen Ifill Copy Share Image
“In Hollywood films and television documentaries, the battle lines are clearly drawn. Traditional public schools are bad; their supporters are apologists for… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Whatever career you may choose for yourself - doctor, lawyer, teacher - let me propose an avocation to be pursued along with… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
My issue is race. I feel black people nowadays have to conform to this one ideal. We all have to be the… — Kamanda Ndama Copy Share Image
When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only, & not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's not often that you get to read something that just feels very original for a star but also something that feels… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women… — Anna Holmes Copy Share Image
If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right… — Madonna Ciccone Copy Share Image
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I believe that education is the civil rights issue of our generation. And if you care about promoting opportunity and reducing inequality,… — Arne Duncan Copy Share Image
I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
Prior to civil rights, the Democratic Party had been defined by an increasingly untenable alliance of ideological opposites - integrationist Northern liberals… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
After marching across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma as a young man, John Lewis went on to become a legendary leader… — Kay Ivey 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
“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 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
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
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
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
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
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