Judge Roberts declined to disavow disparaging opinions expressed against civil rights laws, voting rights act, wage discrimination against women and others,

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964

intent on reversing decades of policies on civil rights, voting rights, women's rights, privacy and access to justice.

He was resolute in his leadership, ... He always said civil rights is civil rights.

Brown truly becomes law, really becomes something everyone's on board with after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, ... At that point, Congress said, 'We are behind Brown.'

In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob [and occasionally the lynch mob] - ruled.