After Quote by Gloria Steinem

The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger…

— Herman Cain

Well, you have to remember that until 1948, when Hubert Humphrey and others forced the Democratic Party to adopt a new policy on civil…

— William A. Rusher

“Even with a Democratic president behind the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a far larger percentage of Republicans than Democrats voted for it. Eminent…

— Ann Coulter

Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the…

— Rafael Cruz

It was the Democrats who were against civil rights legislation

— Allen West

“Truth be told, the party was moving in entirely the wrong direction. Ever since 1964, when Barry Goldwater championed “states’ rights”—understood to signify his…

— Joshua Green

What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.

— Rand Paul

Republicans were historically the party ever-expanding freedom to disenfranchised minorities, from newly liberated slaves to giving women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony…

— Margaret Hoover

The Democrats pretended to care about black people for about five minutes to help their electoral process, and then civil rights suddenly became abortion…

— Ann Coulter

Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights…

— Thomas Sowell

“…in recent history the Democrat Party has created the illusion that their agenda and their policies are what’s best for black people. Somehow it’s…

— Elbert Guillory

“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the Emancipation Proclamation.…

— Elbert Guillory