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There's a very big gulf between the black civil rights leadership in America and the black middle class in America. The black middle class are conservative. Many of those minorities can be persuaded to be members of the Republican Party. ↗

— Pete du Pont

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

— Gloria Allred

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It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record. ↗

— Joe Baca

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It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success. ↗

— Marian Wright Edelman

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And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. ↗

— Julian Castro

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When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? ↗

— Benjamin Harrison

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