Access Quote by Jack Kemp

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

The personal right to acquire property, which is a natural right, gives to property, when acquired, a right to protection, as a social right.

— James Madison

“The civil rights generation is exiting the American stage—not in a haze of nostalgia but in a cloud of gloom, troubled by the persistence…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and,…

— Norman Granz

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to…

— Octavia Spencer

“Civil government, so far as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against…

— Adam Smith

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

— Thomas Paine

It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they…

— Forest Whitaker

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

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

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.

— Paul Craig Roberts

When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when…

— Queen Rania of Jordan