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Civil Rights Quotes

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Experience Me Civil Rights Movement

Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay.

Nicholas Kristof

Gay Civil Rights Cousins Rights Gain

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Politics Civil Rights Movement Rights

A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.

W. E. B. Du Bois

Work Credit Striving Civil Rights Us

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

Support Voting Civil Rights Rights

The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

Freedom Law Giving Civil Rights Box

I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.

Marriage Community Think Civil Rights

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

Civil Rights Movement Rights Fact

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.

Equality People Civil Rights Movement

During Black History Month, I'm reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle for workers' rights.

History Struggle Black Civil Rights

Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.

Struggle Look Down Way Civil Rights

What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press to basically write or broadcast almost anything about the government. There's very few restrictions in that way.

Government Way Civil Rights Movement

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

Douglas Brinkley

Career Civil Rights Rights Working

As a life-long liberal who has engaged in protests against the government and for civil rights, I am saddened at efforts by some of my fellow liberals to silence commencement speakers with whom they might disagree on some issues.

Silence Government I Am Civil Rights

After the Civil War, when blacks fought along whites to secure freedom for all, southern states enacted Black Codes, laws that restricted the civil rights and liberties of blacks. Central to the enforcement of these laws were the stiff penalties for blacks possessing firearms.

Freedom War Black Civil Rights Laws

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

Help White Civil Rights Movement

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

Law President Civil Rights Rights

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

Today Country Important Civil Rights

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

Know Talk Civil Rights Awkward Civil

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

Child Civil Rights Movement Rights

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

Wadada Leo Smith

Live You Civil Rights Movement Civil

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

Support Questions Never Civil Rights

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.

Ilyasah Shabazz

King People Civil Rights Movement

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.

Jewell Parker Rhodes

Born Ghetto Civil Rights Dying Side

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