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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


#citizens #civil #civil rights #constitution #does

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


#china #civil #civil rights #depression #directions

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


#between #big #black #civil #civil rights

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.


Bernice Johnson Reagon


#civil rights #civil rights movement #culture #graduate #graduate school

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


Roger Sherman


#christian #civil #civil rights #denomination #extended

I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves.


Kerry Washington


#america #backward #believe #black #civil

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.


Russell Banks


#anti-war #brown #chapel #chapel hill #civil

In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.


Kareem Abdul-Jabbar


#black americans #book #civil #civil rights #context

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


#believe #between #civil #civil rights #defending

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.


Rod Blagojevich


#chance #child #civil #civil rights #education






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