I used to do Civil War re-enacting between the ages of 15 and 19. I was part of a unit that was considered very authentic. We would source the right wools, the right buttons for the costumes. We had the right look.
And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
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.
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.
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.
Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.
We demand that segregation be ended in every school district in the year 1963! We demand that we have effective civil rights legislation - no compromise, no filibuster - and that include public accommodations, decent housing, integrated education, FE...
Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial...
The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids.
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.
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!
Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
