If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.
The Republican Party supported the Equal Rights Amendment before the Democratic Party did. But what happened was that a lot of very right-wing Democrats, after the civil rights bill of 1964, left the Democratic Party and gradually have taken over the...
I believe health care is a civil right.
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.
It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.
When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.
We support President Truman's civil rights program.
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.
Obama's endorsement of gay marriage is hardly as consequential as Johnson's legislative success on civil rights.
In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women's rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn't just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at...
The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class whereve...
After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.
My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
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.
We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the move...
Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.
