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" After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other. "
Nick Nolte
" And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. "
Julian Castro
" By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights. "
H. W. Brands
" Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business. "
Marcia Fudge
" Diversity in books is a civil rights frontier. "
Jewell Parker Rhodes
" Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks. "
Derrick Bell
" Gays and lesbians began to gain civil rights when Americans realized that their brothers, cousins, daughters were gay. "
Nicholas Kristof
" I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one. "
Edward Brooke
" I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it. "
Gary Johnson
" I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. "
Henry Louis Gates
" I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary. "
Ronald Reagan
" I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills. "
Emanuel Celler
" I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up. "
Kate Thompson
" I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement. "
Danny Glover
" I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders. "
John Lewis
" In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes on the civil rights era and 40 minutes on Martin Luther King, and that's it. "
Colson Whitehead
" It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act. "
Bobby Scott
" I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. "
Cory Booker
" Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced. "
Claire McCaskill
" Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights. "
Jack Kingston
" My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage. "
Janine di Giovanni
" My grandfather James Peck was a civil rights activist. "
Justin Peck
" My mom went through civil rights; my dad went through civil rights. My name was Kenya because they wanted to give me an African name. "
Kenya Barris
" Ossie Davis is one of my heroes for civil rights and things like that. "
Joe R. Lansdale
" Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored. "
Major Owens
" Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist. "
Douglas Brinkley
" School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century. "
Ted Cruz
" Since the ousting and capture of Saddam Hussein by U.S. forces, civil rights and personal freedoms have been restored in Iraq, as well as equal rights to all, not just to Saddam's entourage of terrorists. "
Jim Gerlach
" The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless. "
Henry Rollins
" The civil rights fight was a very important fight. "
Walter Cronkite
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