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.
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to use the first-person pronoun. There was kind of an electric charge around it. To come out from ...
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists.
The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.
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.
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.
