#civil right

Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial. ↗

— Lyman Trumbull

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No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

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All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination. ↗

— Roger Sherman

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I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney. ↗

— Gloria Allred

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I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement. ↗

— Angela Davis

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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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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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A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era. ↗

— Ivan Allen

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