The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough.
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He's very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.
I've gone beyond civil rights and human rights to creation rights.
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
It's just a show. It's not the end of Western Civilization. It's chewing gum.
Civility is perhaps a quaint notion but civility in Parliament is something we should always strive to uphold.
If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights.
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.
We may be sure that out of the ruins of our capitalist civilization a new religion will emerge, just as Christianity emerged from the ruins of the Roman civilization.
Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.
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 only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.
I began to see during the civil war, in that part of the states of Missouri and Kansas where the doctors were shut out, the children did not die.
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.
For really it was the refinement of civilized cruelty, this spick, span, and ingenious affair of shining leather and gleaming steel, which hoisted you and tilted you and fitted reassuringly into the small of your back and cupped your head tenderly be...
In the decades following the Revolution, America changed so much and so rapidly that Americans not only became used to change, but came to expected and prize it.
Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to tame that democracy.
