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“I was raised with no religious training or influence. Except the influence was to be a moral and ethical person at the secular level. And to be a peace marcher, an activist for civil rights, peace and justice.”

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Author:Anne Lamott

“I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else.”

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Author:Denis Leary

“If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain clothing. Talk about lack of civil rights - I'm sorry, I'm pulling you right off the street, and we're giving you clothes that you're going to be O.K. in.”

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Author:Denis Leary

“The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.”

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Author:John Lewis

“Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.”

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Author:A. J. Liebling

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

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Obama's not down for the civil rights struggle, and he certainly wasn't down for the apartheid struggle, but he's clearly gonna take advantage of it and insert himself in such a way as to make it look like he is single-handedly responsible for apartheid going by the wayside.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists in this country offends me, but it's able to be pushed and sold because education in this country is so woefully incompetent and inept.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”

Source: Lincoln on Democracy

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”

“Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.”

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Author:Nelson Mandela

“In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.”

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Author:Wilma Mankiller

“We came equals into this world, and equals shall we go out of it.”

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Author:George Mason

“As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs.”

“If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.”

“When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to property; together with the right to defend them in the best manner they can.”

Source: Samuel Adams: selections from his writings

“Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but having visited developing nations and some of the poorest nations in the world, I realize how deep it goes and how much work really needs to be done to create equality for all.”

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Author:Jason Mraz

“Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.”

Source: Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays

“We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not nor will we ever monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.”

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Author:Janet Napolitano

“Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.”

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Author:Glenn Beck

“I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“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.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“Joe Arpaio needs no help from me getting attention. For years he has been a beacon of bigotry and intolerance for all the world to see. The list of human and civil-rights abuses he’s committed in Maricopa County is long and well documented.”

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Author:Conor Oberst

“I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.”

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Book:Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

Source: Quiet Strength: The Faith, the Hope, and the Heart of a Woman who Changed a Nation

“What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rights.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“The nation's government has just handed me the bill that grants us our civil rights. I am receiving it before you, certain that I am accepting this on behalf of all Argentinean women, and I can feel my hands tremble with joy as they grasp the laurel proclaiming victory.”

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Author:Evita Peron

“Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection: they have many friends and few enemies.”

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Book:Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters

“Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.”

“A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.”

“Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.”

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Author:Dan Rather

“I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.”

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Author:Ronald Reagan

“When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.”

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Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon

“The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.”

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Author:Jackie Robinson

“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.”

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Author:Dan Savage

“From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.”

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Book:Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz

Source: Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz

“During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.”

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Author:Russell Simmons

“My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.”

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Author:Bruce Springsteen

“If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.”

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Author:Jon Stewart

“I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.”

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Author:Emma Stone

“I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.”

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Author:Radhanath Swami

“You can't put civil rights on the ballot.”

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Author:Jesse Ventura

“We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard.”

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Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time.”

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Author:Dionne Warwick

“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.”

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Book:The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays

Source: The Problem of the Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: The Essential Early Essays

“To sin by silence, when they should protest, makes cowards of men.”

“To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.”

“Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.”

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Author:Andrew Young

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