They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.
The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and mobilize white opposition to the Civil Rights Movement. In the years following Brown v. Board of E...
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.
If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.
Too often, advances in civil rights or women's rights are undermined by wrong-headed legislation or weak-kneed political leadership.
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.
Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
Blue: Civil rights violatin' mothafuckas.
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and...
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights.
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
I am absolutely comfortable with the fact that men marrying men, women marrying women, and heterosexual men and women marrying another are entitled to the same exact rights, all the civil rights, all the civil liberties. And quite frankly, I don't se...
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
You can't put civil rights on the ballot.
