If you can't find anybody else, then I'll go. So, they couldn't find anybody else. So, I went. — Victoria Gray Adams Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the modern Southern GOP was born. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
If we don't believe in free expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust. — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I have a long history in fighting for civil rights. I understand that many people in the African-American community may not understand… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She… — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about… — Ezekiel Emanuel Copy Share Image
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
We're still a racist country, but we've come a long way since the civil rights eras and we are still a homophobic… — Rick Steves Copy Share Image
I was lucky I had a mom who had seen it all. From seeing my grandfather march in the Civil Rights era,… — Malcolm Brogdon Copy Share Image
People don't think about the fact that when Barack Obama's parents had him - it was illegal for them to be married… — Kerry Washington Copy Share Image
The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Karen Russell learned to think from her father, someone Peter Gammons knows well, Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, who used his prominence… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
When I arrived in America, I experienced serious culture shock. For someone with a religious upbringing, the 1960s were an extremely difficult… — Feisal Abdul Rauf Copy Share Image
The first amendment is freedom of speech of what you believe in, if you speak something its your right to say what… — Jenny The Jawbreaker Copy Share Image
This is a crucial time in the fight for corporate civil rights. Just look at the hateful signs at Occupy Wallstreet: 'Corporations… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have infiltrated both the Democrat [sic] and… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
“From time to time our national history has been marred by forgetfulness of the Jeffersonian principle that restraint is at the heart… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Jimmy likely wrote all three editorials, and one, titled “Who Is for Law and Order?” carried his byline. He argued that the… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
You've got Hezbollah in Arizona. You've got Mexican drug cartels operating in Arizona. You've got the steady stream of illegals over the… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
“The American flag doesn't give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It's when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
“All of this goes back to Bill Clinton. It’s not a coincidence that radical welfare reform took place on the same watch… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities. — David Remnick Copy Share Image
My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage. — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights. — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
“The price of conviction has never been cheap, but it will always be worth it.” — Andrena Sawyer Copy Share Image
Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored. — Major Owens Copy Share Image
I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.' — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
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