America Quote by Jesse Jackson

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

— David Harris

Demographically, I'm a hippie from San Francisco and I'm not culturally inclined to be sympathetic to states' rights. My cultural heritage is FDR and…

— Naomi Wolf

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

— Walter Cronkite

Today, the District of Columbia has more residents than at least two other states; Puerto Rico has more than 20. With numbers like that,…

— Heather Cox Richardson

The District of Columbia has every right to pass their own laws, and House Republicans should stay out of it.

— Jan Schakowsky

“statehood was crucial to future national existence.”

— Timothy Snyder

Washington, D.C. is a city filled with people who believe they are important.

— David Brinkley

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such…

— Lyman Trumbull

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love…

— Bell Hooks

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

— Frederick Douglass

Next to the right of liberty, the right of property is the most important individual right guaranteed by the Constitution and the one which,…

— William Howard Taft

Piety, religion, and morality are intimately connected with the well being of that state, and indispensable to the administration of civil justice.

— Joseph Story