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“I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.”

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Author:Charlayne Hunter-Gault

“When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was one of the great moral crusades in the first half of the twentieth century. Unfortunately, in more recent times it has become all too much like those it opposed, demanding racial double standards and even condoning verbal and violent attacks against members of other races.”

“We call on the Senate to reject any judicial nominee who does not affirm fundamental civil rights, including a woman's right [to obtain an abortion on demand]. The threat an [pro-life] judiciary poses to women's lives demands nothing less.”

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Author:Susana Martinez

“This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement”

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Author:Hamid Dabashi

“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

“American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our people have been lynched physically, but now it's done politically. We're lynched politically, we're lynched economically, we're lynched socially, we're lynched in every way that you can imagine.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“We are fighting for the right to live as free humans in this society. In fact, we are actually fighting for rights that are even greater than civil rights and that is human rights.”

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Author:Malcolm X

“The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.”

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Book:On Lynchings

Source: On Lynchings

“Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.”

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Author:Dick Gregory

“Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.”

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Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin

“Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last." That is the inscription on his tomb in Atlanta.”

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Author:Billy Graham

“No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions.”

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Author:Paul Tsongas

“Pres. Lyndon Johnson was a middle-aged man of smalltown America, both a Westerner and a Southerner, and except where politics had demonstrably forced his growth-as on the question of civil rights-he functioned like most men, as a product of his background.”

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Author:Tom Wicker

“I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our history, an awful lot of what we've fought over, struggled for, is the right of people to vote. That's what the civil-rights movement was, at its bottom, about. At the fundamental level, democracy means a government in which the people vote.”

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Author:David Boies

“We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.”

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Author:Clarence Thomas

“There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.”

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Book:Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

Source: Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin

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

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Author:Jennifer Chiaverini

“John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.”

“I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights.”

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Author:Alan Autry

“I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.”

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Author:Gloria Allred

“The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.”

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Author:Jim Costa

“Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than by anything that Martin Luther King said or did.”

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Author:Dinesh D'Souza

“I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.”

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Author:Dick Gephardt

“My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.”

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Author:Janis Ian

“Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised.”

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Author:Janis Ian

“For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.”

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Author:Gary Clark, Jr.

“Civil marriage, like all civil rights provided by the government, must be provided equally to all Americans.”

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Author:Benjamin Jealous