#civil rights

There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it. ↗

— Moshe Katsav

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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law. ↗

— Ida B. Wells

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The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. ↗

— Jon Stewart

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If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. ↗

— David Talbot

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

— Major Owens

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Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today. ↗

— David Harris

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For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be enough. ↗

— Tammy Bruce

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