Civil rights Quote by John Sparkman

No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments,…

— H. L. Mencken

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is…

— Stephen Harper

The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice…

— Marian Wright Edelman

We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress,…

— Bill Cosby

I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.

— Macklemore

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

— Susan Estrich

“Mass incarceration—not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement—is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement”

— Michelle Alexander

The foundations of modern civil-rights law are exceptionally secure. Conservative judges nibble around the edges sometimes, and people still debate the constitutionality of affirmative-action…

— Benjamin Wittes

There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for…

— Robert Kennedy

It was clear to me as a civil rights leader in the '60s that unless we put the social and economic underpinnings beneath the…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I have done it [appointed commissions] regretfully and with the hope that it would be temporary. But after a commission is established you find…

— Calvin Coolidge