Debate Quote by Benjamin Wittes

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments,…

— H. L. Mencken

“Mass incarceration—not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement—is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement”

— Michelle Alexander

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

— David Harris

“Thus, the proclaimed goal of affirmative action advocates is to "level the playing field." It is defined this way to highlight the left's claim…

— David Horowitz

Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation…

— Thomas Paine

“Civil rights is just one battlefield in the real war of the left, which is the war against America itself. The big guns of…

— David Horowitz

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

— Walter Cronkite

Opposing discrimination and supporting longstanding laws such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is not controversial - but conflating civil rights with the…

— Byron Donalds

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage…

— Barack Obama

In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case…

— Alexander Hamilton

I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights…

— Dick Gephardt

The civil rights movement is understanding your freedom under the Constitution of these United States and if anyone tries to take those freedoms from…

— Ken Hutcherson