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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #civil right




I oppose the attempts of homosexual activists to treat homosexual activity as a civil right to be protected and promoted by the government.


Todd Akin


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Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.


Mary Frances Berry


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I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.


Stokely Carmichael


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It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.


Elijah Cummings


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Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.


Wesley Morris


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


Ida B. Wells


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Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.


James Meredith


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The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling.


Charles Moore


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I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.


Bernice Johnson Reagon


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If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.


Henry Louis Gates


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