Betrayed Quote by Thomas Sowell

The idea of equal rights was in the air.

— Lucy Stone

“Thus, the proclaimed goal of affirmative action advocates is to "level the playing field." It is defined this way to highlight the left's claim…

— David Horowitz

“The reality of an historic struggle for civil rights has degenerated into the hustling rhetoric of Newspeak. “Equal opportunity” now means preferential treatment. “Voting…

— Thomas Sowell

Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is…

— Thomas Sowell

Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil Rights Act…

— Ron Paul

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and…

— John Hume

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

— Aberjhani

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

By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.

— H. W. Brands

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

Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.

— Louise Slaughter

A good many observers have remarked that if equality could come at once, the Negro would not be ready for it. I submit that…

— Anonymous