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For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
Until civil rights are enjoyed by all of us, we're simply not civilized.
When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.
When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.
You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.
The civil rights movement was not a mirage… It was live and in living color.
Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.
Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.
It is our responsibility to stand up for equality, fairness, and civil rights.
The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.
I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.
Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.
By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.
Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.
Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.
I believe in civil rights. Every man is born equal and should be treated as human.
I am not, in fact, a superhero. Just a humble, mild-mannered civil rights attorney.
My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
Civil liberties victories never stay won, but must be fought for over and over again.
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.
It's a good bet that if Jesse Jackson calls something a 'civil rights issue,' it's not.
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.
I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.
By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'
The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.
We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.
I think it's important to remember that civil rights and economic rights are mutually dependent.
In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.
The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate.
I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country.
The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone.
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.
I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.
The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do.
As long as hope remains and meaning is preserved, the possibility of overcoming oppression stays alive.
Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back