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I grew up in Illinois in an environment where my parents were very politically active in the civil rights movement.
The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.
Progress is possible, but it is fragile - and across our country, the battles for our most basic civil rights rage on.
I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.
My mother supported me from the beginning and never said you should be an activist or civil rights leader or minister.
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.
If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights.
LGBTQ Americans deserve a president who will always stand with them and protect their civil rights - without hesitation.
The NRA is interested in protecting the civil rights of Americans, not protecting the ability of terrorists to get guns.
Protecting the rights of service members was an important part of my work as Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights.
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
It is my hope that the pagan media and academic establishment will implode on the force of its own corruption and stagnation.
Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is right.
In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.
The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.
Wishy-washy equivocations - and not just on abortion, but on immigration, on civil rights, on income inequality - weaken all of us.
The history of black America was from slavery, oppression, civil rights, and you felt kind of isolated as an entity in our country.
The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.
I was born in a ghetto on the North Side of Pittsburgh. I was born as Emmett Till was dying and the civil rights era was being born.
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name.
We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.
Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him.
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.
Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.
Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson.
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive.
In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march.
Jail threats did not dissuade Martin Luther King - and intergenerational justice is a moral issue of comparable magnitude to civil rights.
In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by.
Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women's suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great as it is.
If I were an Arab-American, I would insist on being profiled. This is not the time for civil rights. There are larger issues for Americans.
I think I came here as a priest... The priest is more concerned with heresy than with sin; sins can be forgiven; heresy must be eliminated.
As president, I won't just continue to defend women's civil rights from political attacks - I'll make guaranteeing those rights a priority.
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.
I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of people don't support you.'