The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved.

We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

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

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.