#civil right

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. ↗

— Jon Stewart

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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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Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today. ↗

— David Harris

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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

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Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson. ↗

— Morris Dees

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The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. ↗

— Lyman Trumbull

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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life. ↗

— Andrew Young

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This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's a four-year story. ↗

— Neil Young

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I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement. ↗

— Danny Glover

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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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