African american Quote by Octavia Spencer

The truth is, even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface there are huge issues…

— Patricia Arquette

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

— Nicholas Kristof

We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for…

— George Takei

The truth is even though we sort of feel like we have equal rights in America, right under the surface we have huge issues…

— Patricia Arquette

I think that the people who come from communities like me as an African-American woman, as a member of the LGBT community, we haven't…

— Lori Lightfoot

Twenty-five, 30 years ago, the barometer of human rights in the United States were black people. That is no longer true. The barometer for…

— Bayard Rustin

We still have gaps that are rooted in gender inequality. Certainly we have discrimination against the LGBT community.

— Hillary Clinton

When I look at American history, I see how it has been driven by resistance and protest against a system that has been oppressive…

— Jamaal Bowman

There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get…

— Sojourner Truth

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

— Macklemore

WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.

— Iyanla Vanzant

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

— Tina Brown