About Quote by Jesse Helms

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

— Bill Ayers

Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed…

— Julian Castro

Before the nineteen-seventies, most Republicans in Washington accepted the institutions of the welfare state, and most Democrats agreed with the logic of the Cold…

— George Packer

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

It used to be that the working class, broadly speaking - Americans who worked with their hands, who worked in factories, who were not…

— George Packer

My family wasn't particularly political. Mom and Dad voted, but that was the extent of their involvement. In fact, I ended up going to…

— Jackie Speier

I think [ chief organizer of the Democratic Party ] it's something that I have an interest in.

— Barack Obama

I think my experience at the University of Chicago, working in the civil rights movement, working in the peace movement, working with community organizations,…

— Bernie Sanders

Howard Zinn helped us desegregate Atlanta. That was moving because he took a lot of abuse for that. He and Staughton Lynd, a fellow…

— Alice Walker

My father joined the NAACP when he was 12, in the '50s. He was part of the organizing efforts that led to some of…

— Boots Riley

There are a variety of groups, Human Rights Campaign, Planned Parenthood, NARAL, Sierra Club, that are groups that do very good work, that do…

— Chris Hayes

In the 1950s and '60s the [democrat] party included many obviously earnest and thoughtful liberals who supported goals that were in line with and…

— Peggy Noonan