Civil rights Quote by Martin Luther King III

The seminal right of the modern civil rights movement was the right to vote. My father fought so diligently for it. Certainly Congressman John…

— Martin Luther King III

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them…

— Claire McCaskill

1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to get people to respond, because of…

— John Lewis

Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up and I…

— Audra McDonald

It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be…

— Harry A. Blackmun

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

— David Harris

The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all aspects of…

— Alicia Garza

Liberals say this over and over and over again to hide the actual history, which is why I go through the specifics on the…

— Ann Coulter

[Before the Civil Rights Act of 1964], many governments in southern states forced people to segregate by race. Civil rights advocates fought to repeal…

— Harry Browne

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

— Clarence Thomas

We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going…

— Rosa Parks

When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights like voting, it just reminds us that we're always…

— Terri Sewell