There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.
Tillie: Civil rights is one thing. This here is somethin' else.
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.
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.
Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.
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.
Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American c...
Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal was a fantasy. Things change because we imagine a different world, a world that is not. And I think that im...
[Button] If Gay and Lesbian people are given civil rights, soon everyone will want them
This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story.
Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.
There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it.
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
