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The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.
I'm often accused of hiring people with civil rights experience, and I do plead guilty to that.
We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.
I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.
In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country.
The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate.
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.
I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen.
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.
The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do.
I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.
Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back
As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
As members of the oldest civil rights organization in the nation, NRA members know tyranny when we see it.
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.
Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.
They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.
The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.
Every segment of our population, and every individual, has a right to expect from his government a fair deal.
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders.
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
Civil rights activists and union activists shared not just common values and objectives but also common enemies.
Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.
Stop and frisk - whether done while walking down the street or while driving a car - is a civil rights violation.
I recall saying that civil rights organizations, when they demand more than is legitimate, it hurts their position.
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.