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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.
The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die
We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.
Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that.
When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25.
After years as a civil rights lawyer, I rarely find myself speechless.
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.
When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.
You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.
There are a million Negroes in Mississippi. I think they'll take care of me.
The civil rights movement was not a mirage… It was live and in living color.
Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.
Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.
Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.
The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.
I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.
Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.
I believe in civil rights. Every man is born equal and should be treated as human.
I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.
I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.
My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice.
That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
It's a good bet that if Jesse Jackson calls something a 'civil rights issue,' it's not.
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
Homosexuality is not about love, it's not about family, and it's not about civil rights.
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.
I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'
If you can't find anybody else, then I'll go. So, they couldn't find anybody else. So, I went.