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
We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
“As historian Gerald McKnight observes, “King was proposing nothing less than a radical transformation of the Civil Rights Movement into a populist… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Jimmy never met Joe Louis before that trial, only the jury didn’t know that. But Jimmy was strong for civil rights. That… — Charles Brandt Copy Share Image
In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Thus these three amendments to the Constitution [13th, 14th, 15th] were ratified while the ten Southern states were under martial law, and… — Eustace Mullins Copy Share Image
“The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. “Equal opportunity” now means preferential… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
If by a "Liberal," they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
“He renamed India’s untouchables harijan, “God’s people,” and raised them to human stature. And in doing so he provided the nonviolent strategy… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Racism is a complex and interconnected system that adapts to challenges over time. Colorblind ideology was a very effective adaptation to the… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“the classroom as a living, breathing place. They chose discussions over lectures, experience over theory. They sent students to the Deep South… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Well, my personal mission statement is that we want marriage equality in all 50 states. We want it not to be a… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Across the political spectrum, Americans assert that any form of white racial consciousness or solidarity is despicable. Whites, therefore, have tried to… — Jared Taylor Copy Share Image
Opposing discrimination and supporting longstanding laws such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is not controversial - but conflating civil rights… — Byron Donalds Copy Share Image
We're living in a time when so many of the civil rights and social justice organizations are run by lawyers and policy… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“But despite the scarcity of confrontation with whites in our neighborhood, race and racism permeated every aspect of our lives. Our parents… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
The day when the Jew was first admitted to civil rights, the Christian state was in danger...the entrance of the Jew into… — Bernard Lazare Copy Share Image
The Internet has introduced an enormously accessible and egalitarian platform for creating, sharing and obtaining information on a global scale. As a… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
“The only marches I have ever witnessed under a banner of so-called "Christianity" have been to enforce oppression and incite hatred and… — Christina Engela Copy Share Image
In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
If the opportunity comes along to do a piece that has absolutely nothing to do with my gender or my race, and… — Naomi Ackie Copy Share Image
“Civil rights is just one battlefield in the real war of the left, which is the war against America itself. The big… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
My friend Patsy Mink was a champion for social and economic justice, equality and civil rights for women and marginalized communities. She… — Mazie Hirono Copy Share Image
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The civil rights of none, shall be abridged on account of religious belief or worship, nor shall any national religion be established,… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Project 2025 threatens to reverse the clock on progress in America and undermine the very fabric of our society by threatening the… — Al N. Green Copy Share Image
“The period that I would anoint as the golden era in American journalism was from the mid 1950s to the mid 1970s.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
As Dr. King said, an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. It is that creed of the civil rights movement… — Steven Horsford Copy Share Image
The right to freedom of expression is justified first of all as the right of an individual purely in his capacity as… — Thomas I. Emerson Copy Share Image
The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain… — Evita Peron Copy Share Image
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