Age discrimination is illegal. But when compared with discrimination against racial minorities and women, it is a second-class civil rights issue.

The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.

It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.

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

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.

We're pursuing the girls' civil rights, their right to be free from discrimination based on their perceived sexual orientation.