“Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.” NextParentBreakRightsGenerationsHappenedYouthInvolvedPatternsCivil RightsAccustomedNext GenerationStood Up Author:Octavia Spencer
“Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today.” PeopleWorldGovernmentTodayRightsCrimeInvolvedCourtCivil RightsGuiltyGenocideConspiracyExpectingCitizenshipRedressWasting Your Time Author:Malcolm X
“My family are doctors and pilots and people involved in indigenous First Nation land rights; not overtly artistic.” PeopleFirstsNationsRightsLandInvolvedMy FamilyDoctorsArtisticPilotsIndigenous Author:Deborah Kara Unger
“We are not directly involved in Syria. But we will be working with our partners in the European Union and at the United Nations to see if we can persuade the Syrian authorities to go, as I say, more in that direction of respect for democracy and human rights.” IfsHumansNationsUnitedDemocracyRightsInvolvedAuthorityUnionsHuman RightsPartnersSyriaUnited NationsEuropean UnionDemocracy And Human Rights Author:William Hague
“Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.” StillsPoliticalMotherActorsFatherRightsMovementInvolvedUnionsFolksSingersCivil RightsPolitical Movements Author:Vicki Sue Robinson
“Waiving the rights of conscience, not included in the surrender implied by the social state, & more or less invaded by all Religious establishments, the simple question to be decided, is whether a support of the best & purest religion, the Christian religion itself ought not, so far at least as pecuniary means are involved, to be provided for by the Government, rather than be left to the voluntary provisions of those who profess it.” MeanStatesGovernmentChristianLeftSocialReligiousSimpleSupportRightsOughtInvolvedConscienceDecidedSurrenderEstablishmentProvisionImplied Author:James Madison
“Our bill of rights has been shredded. The fourth amendment specifically prohibits the kind of activities the NSA is involved in domestically. The fifth amendment prohibits any president or anyone else from killing anyone without due process.” KindHas BeensProcessPresidentRightsInvolvedActivityBillsKillingDuesAmendmentsFourthFifthNsaBill Of RightsDue ProcessFourth AmendmentFifth Amendment Author:Ray McGovern
“It's going to be very important that we as women's rights advocates are involved in redistricting of both the states legislatures and of the House of Representatives and that we not lose seats but we gain seats for talented women and our country, but we're lacking behind.” ImportantCountryStatesHouseLosesBehindsRightsInvolvedGainsOur CountrySeatsRepresentativesWomens RightsLackingLegislatureHouse Of RepresentativesState LegislaturesRedistricting Author:Eleanor Smeal
“Part of the reason I had such a drive to be an activist, and support other activists, is because I was raised Quaker and my parents kept us very much informed and involved as kids in civil rights and the conservation movement.” ReasonKidsParentSupportRightsMovementInvolvedRaisedCivil RightsActivistConservationQuaker Author:Bonnie Raitt