“In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.” PeopleLittlesBlackWhiteDemocracyRightsMovementCivilizationMajorityPropertySouthCivil RightsMinoritiesRelativeCivil Rights MovementNo RespectCivil Rights Act Book:The Terrible Truth about Liberals Source: The Terrible Truth about Liberals
“This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country. So tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every working man, every housewife - I urge every American - to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people, and to bring peace to our land.” PeopleMenHeartCountryStatesHomeLastsCommunityChallengesReligiousJusticeInspiringEffortLeaderRightsLandInjusticeEqualityCivil RightsBelovedOfficialsTonightUrgesOur CommunityHousewifeWorking ManReligious LeadersPublic OfficialsBeloved CountryCivil Rights ActUncontrollable Urge Author:Lyndon B. Johnson
“Quotas are a perfectly logical, if diabolical, extension of the regulation of private property courtesy of the Civil Rights Act, whereby in an attempt to shape American society in politically pleasing ways, people have been coerced into liking, hiring or renting against their will or better judgment.” PeopleIfsWayHas BeensRightsShapesJudgmentPropertyCivil RightsLogicalRegulationExtensionsCourtesyHiringPrivate PropertyAmerican SocietyDiabolicalQuotaCivil Rights Act Author:Ilana Mercer
“Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later felt betrayed as the original concept of equal individual opportunity evolved toward the concept of equal group results.” OpportunityIndividualFeltDecisionResultsRightsGroupsEqualConceptsOriginalsCivil RightsBoardsBrownBetrayedInitialsThrustCivil Rights ActBoard Of EducationCivil Rights Act Of 1964 Author:Thomas Sowell
“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.” Would BeRightsAspectFoundationDemocraticCivil RightsVotingDaily LifeRight To VoteDemocratic SocietyCivil Rights ActVoting Rights ActCivil Rights Act Of 1964 Author:Aberjhani
“This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, to treat homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” TwoPastOrderPresidentClassRightsSpecialTreatsBillsClintonCongressVariousScaryCivil RightsTitlesExecutivesProtectedHomosexualSessionPresident ClintonExecutive OrdersCivil Rights ActCivil Rights Act Of 1964 Author:Jesse Helms
“I would have to say all of the civil rights acts, because there were three, and even, say, the Immigration Act, which I think also is a civil rights act, maybe on a global perspective, that he cared very, very much about it.” ThinkingThreeRightsPerspectiveImmigrationCivil RightsCivil Rights Act Author:Lynda Bird Johnson Robb
“It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.” DifficultRightsImportanceCivil RightsHippieCivil Rights ActCivil Rights Act Of 1964 Author:Bobby Scott
“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.” AmericaPastRightsTomorrowCivil RightsSecurePassagesBetter TomorrowCivil Rights ActCivil Rights Act Of 1964 Author:Aberjhani
“No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.” SupportRightsRepublicanCivil RightsDisputesCivil Rights ActCivil Rights Act Of 1964 Author:Rand Paul