Bills Quote by Emanuel Celler

When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I…

— Barney Frank

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

— Amber Hollibaugh

Through the years, I had became involved with social and political issues, such as racial discrimination.

— Sam Wanamaker

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

— Ronald Reagan

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Too Short

If I have advocated the cause of the Negro, it is not because I am a Negro, but because I am a man.

— Frederick Douglass

I have lived among negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am…

— Andrew Johnson

In my political life I spoke before leftist groups, before black activist groups that I disagreed with, to explain my position and to support…

— David Duke

When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were…

— Leah Ward Sears

I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.

— Gary Johnson

I had an economic system imposed on me.

— Lauryn Hill

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18,…

— Radhanath Swami