#rights

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#changed #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #commercial

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#background #came #civil #civil rights #civil rights movement

I do believe states' rights was a sound doctrine that got hijacked by some unsavory customers for a while - like, 150 years or so. I'm professionally obliged to believe that knowledge is better than ignorance, but some kinds of forgetting are OK with me. ↗

— John Shelton Reed

#better #customers #doctrine #forgetting #got

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist. ↗

— Joely Richardson

#anyway #call #herself #human #human rights

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. ↗

— Roger Nash Baldwin

#called #country #democracy #enough #enough people

When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#competition #each #frequency #government #handful

When the government picked companies and gave them monopoly rights to frequencies in San Francisco and Los Angeles and New York and Chicago, it was picking the winners of the competition; it wasn't setting the terms of the competition. ↗

— Robert McChesney

#chicago #companies #competition #francisco #frequencies

As far as military necessity will permit, religiously respect the constitutional rights of all. ↗

— George McClellan

#constitutional #constitutional rights #far #military #necessity

Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back. ↗

— Aaron McGruder

#give #going #once #rights #them

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#because #believe #competitors #create #despair