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

— Danny Glover

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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama. ↗

— Rachel Griffiths

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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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The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

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When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country. ↗

— Bruce Hornsby

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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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They don't have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways. ↗

— Tom Allen

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I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

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The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader. ↗

— Adam Lambert

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