Anytime you stir up the past and deal with civil rights a lot of people say 'oh, well that's a done deal, it's over with,' and that couldn't be furthest from the truth.

In the past few years, we have seen an increase in international tourism to civil rights sites, ... I think Nelson Mandela's comments about the importance of Rosa Parks has helped make civil rights sites here international sites of interest.

The civil rights movement for which he [Martin Luther King] lived and died was grounded in a fundamental truth: All of us are created equal. The same-sex marriage movement, by contrast, is grounded in the denial of a fundamental truth: The Creator who made us equal made us male and female. That duality has always and everywhere been the starting point for marriage. The newly fashionable claim that marriage can ignore that duality is akin to the claim, back when lunch counters were segregated, that America was a land of liberty and justice for all.

What we found was that people had documented the civil rights movement basically through newspaper clippings and scrapbooks.

He heard from his base that this is a civil rights issue.

Roberts flunks the civil-rights test.