The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens. — Wendell Willkie Copy Share Image
That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
“His in-laws, Erastus and Eloise Oppenheimer, lived in Ezra, Texas, a town tucked so deep in the woods of East Texas that… — Sharon Bayliss Copy Share Image
I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
It behooves our citizens to be on their guard, to be firm in their principles, and full of confidence in themselves. We… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
We need to end qualified immunity at the federal level, where police can violate a person's civil rights with impunity, which we've… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
“To treat disease you need medical license, To treat injustice being human is enough. To fly a plane you need pilot's license,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
It's appalling that there have to be movements organized to give human beings the right to be human beings in the eyes… — Glenda Jackson Copy Share Image
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Historically, narratives of forgiveness were part of both the anti-slavery movement and the civil rights movement in America. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' for… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
I believe that what is legislated bleeds down into everything. So if the legislation continues to uphold anything that doesn't support equal… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As the daughter of a civil rights leader, I believe in the power that compels people to stand up for their freedoms,… — Lucy McBath Copy Share Image
You didn't see me on television, you didn't see news stories about me. The kind of role that I tried to play… — Ella Baker Copy Share Image
Where was the libertarian right during the great struggles for individual liberty in America in the last half-century? The libertarian movement has… — Michael Lind Copy Share Image
I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement is understanding your freedom under the Constitution of these United States and if anyone tries to take those… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
“Naturalization, on the other hand, also proved to be a failure. The whole naturalization system of European countries fell apart when it… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“In Russia I felt for the first time like a full human being – no colour prejudice like in Mississippi, no colour… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in… — James Madison Copy Share Image
This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution… — Natalie Zemon Davis Copy Share Image
“When people are forced to respect civil rights and human rights or face legal consequences, they don't like it. Civil rights laws… — Arun Gandhi Copy Share Image
“Everybody is a terrorist, till you see the reformist (The Sonnet) Everybody is a president, till you see the first servant. Everybody… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political… — Dean Baker Copy Share Image
At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race. — Manning Marable Copy Share Image
“Privilege is when you can afford to sit back and watch as others' rights are trampled upon.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
“There is no greater environmental stabilizer than commoners jolted to duty.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society. — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is not about love, it's not about family, and it's not about civil rights. — Jesse Lee Peterson Copy Share Image
