Quotes of: Civil-rights-movement Keyword

I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.

Gary Johnson

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

Janine di Giovanni

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.

Cary Fukunaga

In the case of Tunisia, it was indeed this single act that sparked what had been long-standing active protest movements and moved them forward. But that's not so unusual. Let's look at our own history. Take the civil rights movement. There had been p...

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And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.

Julian Castro

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

Stokely Carmichael

For as long as I can remember, I've always been interested in issues of social justice, political freedom, and civil rights.

Jennifer Chiaverini

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.

Aberjhani

I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.

Andrew Cuomo

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.

Jello Biafra

If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights.

David Blunkett

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.

Morgan Freeman

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.

Deval Patrick

To be 'for animals' is not to be 'against humanity.' To require others to treat animals justly, as their rights require, is not to ask for anything more nor less in their case than in the case of any human to whom just treatment is due. The animal ri...

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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...

Bayard Rustin

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...

Lyman Trumbull

In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.

Marianne Williamson

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.

Emanuel Celler

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!

Cyndi Lauper

Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.

Rush Limbaugh

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

Bruce Hornsby