20th century Quote by Letitia James

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

Since the Brown v. Board of Education decision of 1954, Movement Conservatives have tapped into the idea that an activist government redistributed wealth to…

— Heather Cox Richardson

“The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and…

— Michelle Alexander

“3. Serving Two Masters Derrick Bell has pointed out a third structure that impedes reform, this time in law. To litigate a law-reform case,…

— Richard Delgado

“The general public typically traces the death of Jim Crow to Brown v. Board of Education, although the institution was showing signs of weakness…

— Michelle Alexander

During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that…

— Jonathan Kozol

“a 1960 self-published broadside, A Business Man Looks at Communism, Koch claimed that “the Communists have infiltrated both the Democrat [sic] and Republican Parties.”…

— Jane Mayer

My association with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference is sort of predated by an effort that we were a part of here in New…

— Ella Baker

Our courts' decisions do not permeate the public consciousness - we have no equivalent of the Brown v Board of Education ruling which outlawed…

— Emily Thornberry

The hardest problems of all in law enforcement are those involving a conflict of law and local customs. History has recorded many occasions when…

— Robert Kennedy

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end…

— Bryan Stevenson

So was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme…

— Eric Alterman

A decision by the Supreme Court to subject Guantanamo to judicial review would eliminate these advantages.

— John Yoo

In a recent decision of the Supreme Court, not made, however, by the full court, and concurred in by only four justices, it was…

— John Bates Clark

“Do you condemn the kids for not having been blessed with I.Q.s of 120? Can you condemn the kids? Can you condemn anyone? Can…

— Evan Hunter