Civil Rights Quotes
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Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
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At the heart of the fractured soul of America is the frightening chasm of race.
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No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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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.
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
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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.
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It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.
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He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.
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I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.
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Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
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In the ’50s and ’60s there was segregation here in the Bay Area and all over the country. There was a curfew for young blacks my age in the Fillmore district where I lived. It was a disturbing thing. There were civil rights movements here in San Francisco. They would show on the national news the dogs being sicced on the marchers, being sprayed with the hoses, being beaten with the batons.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
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The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
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When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
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I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
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You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement. Once you convince Americans that something is basically unfair, you've got a winning cause.
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I knew my own situation, my own town, and I knew I had it in my hand. Once I got it, I knew I could do things that no civil rights march ever did.
