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“The House adjourned without voting on the bill, but the following year a similar bill—mandating equality in hotels and restaurants open to the public,…

— H.W. Brands

I would have to say all of the civil rights acts, because there were three, and even, say, the Immigration Act, which I think…

— Lynda Bird Johnson Robb

“These and other measures, however, seemed relatively inconsequential in 1965 compared to a Big Four that passed by the end of the session: federal…

— James T. Patterson

“In 1866, Congress enforced the abolition of slavery by passing a Civil Rights Act, prohibiting actions that it deemed perpetuated the characteristics of slavery.…

— Richard Rothstein

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

— Henry Rollins

This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes…

— Lyndon B. Johnson

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect…

— Aberjhani

The Court today completes the process of converting Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 from a guarantee that race or sex…

— Antonin Scalia

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

— Ronald Reagan

“The revolution had come too late for him. He was in his midforties when the Civil Rights Act was signed and close to fifty…

— Isabel Wilkerson

A hastily written "Civil Rights Act" was rushed through Congress. President Andrew Johnson immediately vetoed it, noting that the right to confer citizenship rested…

— Eustace Mullins

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted…

— Aberjhani

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of…

— Thomas Perez

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

— Clarence Thomas

This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in…

— Jesse Helms