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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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Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

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The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. ↗

— Jim Costa

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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

— Adam Lambert

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I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right. ↗

— Barack Obama

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I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored. ↗

— Major Owens

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We support President Truman's civil rights program. ↗

— Eugenie Anderson

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The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. ↗

— Lyman Trumbull

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