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I do not believe that defending traditional marriage between one man and one woman excludes anybody or usurps anybody's civil rights and denies anybody their civil rights. ↗

— Alan Autry

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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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The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

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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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That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character. ↗

— Pam Grier

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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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The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians is the 300 to 500 riots in the U.S. between 1965 and 1970. ↗

— Tom Hayden

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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 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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