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DAVID LUJAN UNKNOWN This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without q doubt. JACKIE SPEIER SHERYL SANDBERG When we give up our rights that we have in the Constitution to privacy, to know that Big Brother is ... DAVE ROBERTSON Civil rights in reverse is what I call it. What about our civil rights? DANIEL ORTEGA When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in thi... BRUCE HORNSBY CARLES PUIGDEMONT In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the ru... NEAL BOORTZ has failed his test of leadership and missed an historic opportunity to stand up for the basic civil... MARK LENO JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY Immigration is the No. 2 issue after civil rights. Civil rights right now is what's keeping people f... OSAMA SIBLANI If I had to pick three overall areas: civil rights, access to justice and, I think, privacy. ELLIOT MINCBERG He wants to place our rights up for a popular vote on the ballot. DAN FURMANSKY What we have in East Texas today in regards to gay rights is the tyranny of the majority. It is up t... PATRICK FRANKLIN It is important for students to understand and be aware of their privacy rights and their limits of ... DONALD DUDLEY Democrats have been saying for years to their women's rights and civil rights base: 'Vote for us, an... ELEANOR SMEAL RON PAUL I will respect what people will vote. People who fought for what they thought was right even though ... JOSEPH MUSCAT For the gay establishment, the death of right and wrong began when gaining civil rights ceased to be... TAMMY BRUCE Selma, it is time for us now to put our civil war and civil rights history in the museum, JAMES PERKINS I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will alw... FINN JONES This is a sensitive issue. We cannot give up our rights. No Iranian will be ready to give up our rig... AKBAR RAFSANJANI This is a sensitive issue. We cannot give up our rights. No Iranian will be ready to give up our rig... AKBAR HASHEMI RAFSANJANI John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's r... DEBRA NESS DOROTHY HEIGHT Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get... MARY FRANCES BERRY BENJAMIN TODD JEALOUS Americans will see that when lesbians and gay men are given access to most of the rights and obligat... EVAN WOLFSON THOMAS PAINE RAND PAUL This [vote] is not an anti-Navy, anti-military, anti-American exercise, ... This is an exercise of p... LUIS GUTIERREZ The right to vote is the foundation of our democracy, and an essential protection of that right is t... CAROLINE FREDRICKSON Our Office of Civil Rights must respond to that complaint and look to determine whether or not the f... MIKE SMITH BOB MARLEY This Assembly race presents this year's greatest opportunity for a turnover from two civil rights op... STEVEN GOLDSTEIN There's a human rights component. It involves national security, civil rights, the future of our eco... PAUL ORTIZ ELIZABETH ESTY The right to vote is one of our most fundamental rights in a democracy. After people have completed ... KATHLEEN TAYLOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated ... J. M. COETZEE I see this issue as the civil rights issue of our time. LINDA HALSEY THOMAS PEREZ Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. on the installment plan, as in civil-rights bil... DICK GREGORY As we review more and more documents, I think we're finding more evidence that Roberts would vote wi... JOE SOLMONESE The senators will want to ask about views on presidential powers, women's rights and minorities, bec... JAMES MCCANN Society is strongest when it upholds the basic civil rights of all its citizens, including the right... MARK LENO Protecting civil rights is our basic consideration. KE LIANGDONG It's all the more necessary that China embraces the kind of political reform and opening up of socie... MARY ROBINSON It is my hope that as South Carolina senators, that we will stand up for what is best and good about... CLEMENTA C. PINCKNEY MITT ROMNEY judicial philosophy and his commitment to civil rights, workers' rights, women's rights. CHARLES SCHUMER This was a civil-rights case. JACK SCHWEIGERT TODD AKIN Historians have often censored civil rights activists' commitment to economic issues and misrepr... THOMAS E. PEREZ We deal with a right of privacy older than the Bill of Rights-older than our political parties, olde... WILLIAM ORVILLE DOUGLAS We take full account of two main, fundamental rights -- the right to security .... and privacy prote... FRANCO FRATTINI It makes you want to tear up and cry when you think of what she did and what she accomplished. She t... LOU FREEMAN MAYA ANGELOU DAVID BLUNKETT He heard from his base that this is a civil rights issue. GEOFFREY KORS THANDIE NEWTON JOHN LENNON JESSE JACKSON RAND PAUL TUCKER CARLSON He was resolute in his leadership, ... He always said civil rights is civil rights. MARK LENO We protect the rights of Americans and their privacy, ... We do not violate them and we never will. GEORGE TENET The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered... ALBERT GALLATIN ANTHONY LICCIONE BOB MARLEY The voters of the Hudson Valley deserve strong representation from a leader who will stand up to the... JEFF COOK It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights. TARIQ ALI BILL BRADLEY Racism is not over. It didn't end with the civil rights movement. ERICA MERCKER DAN WAKEFIELD RUSSELL SIMMONS (This is about) bragging rights. Bragging rights for the rest of our lives. BRYAN MATTISON PAT BUCHANAN A. PHILIP RANDOLPH If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course ... CLAUDIA RANKINE They had a tremendous impact. Not just because they underscore that this is a civil rights question,... EVAN WOLFSON Then we can say at least the civil rights community tried to alert you. MARY FRANCES BERRY JULIAN CASTRO I see this as a civil rights issue. People who are gay have a right to be treated equally. PAUL ASH What it boils down to is he will not be released unless he confesses to a crime he did not commit. I... JENNIFER HARBURY RAND PAUL BOB MARLEY BOBBY SCOTT
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John Roberts' record is extensive and troubling. DEBRA NESS It's hard to get people to understand what the court means in their daily lives. DEBRA NESS It's unbelievable how poorly informed we are, how little information we have to go on. DEBRA NESS That means a company could have a 'No Women' or 'No African-Americans' hiring policy, and that would... DEBRA NESS John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's r... DEBRA NESS In the end, he refused to commit to upholding the core principles of Roe. DEBRA NESS We must oppose his confirmation as chief justice even more strenuously because, in that post, he wou... DEBRA NESS It is more important than ever to come up with a consensus candidate everyone can respect. DEBRA L. NESS John Roberts is no longer a blank slate, he has an extensive record and that record is far outside t... DEBRA L. NESS We hope that he won't kowtow to the far right. It would be very divisive for this nation. 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The most significant civil rights problem is voting. Each citizen's right to vote is fundamental... 
Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights ... 
intent on reversing decades of policies on civil rights, voting rights, women's rights, privacy and ... 
Privacy is the right to be alone--the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civ... 
If you don't stand up for others when their rights are being trampled, who will stand up for you whe... 
Social gains are never handed out. They must be seized. 
All we want is to carry out the greatest expression of a free democracy and vote on Catalonia's ... 
It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for on... 
You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as ind... 
There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights. ... 
The right to vote is the right upon which all of our rights are leveraged - and without which none c... 
The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To... 
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil right... 
Get up, stand up, stand up for your rights 
Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country. 
In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'rig... 
It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed ... 
The ability to close the achievement gap is the civil rights issue of our generation, ... This is th... 
It is not about civil rights or the rights of same-sex couples. Same-sex couples are free to live as... 
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Be... 
If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our huma... 
I guess patriarchal stereotypes have, as is true for most people, created painful moments in my life... 
We make her paint her face and dance
He has stood for the inclusion of all segments of our society under the law; women, gender equality,... 
What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rig... 
As a rule, the civil-rights establishment is not punctual. 
People need to stand up for their wrongs, as they stand up for their rights. 
This is the civil rights issue of our time, ... It is no longer blocking schools. It is having the j... 
I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in ... 
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, ... 
Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use th... 
A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, eco... 
And my mother fought hard for civil rights so that instead of a mop, I could hold this microphone. 
I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. 
Don't give up the fight,
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act. 
The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe sli... 
For me, when I start a novel, I only have a general sense of what I am going to do - usually three o... 
Online is such a brilliant, brilliant way to connect with young readers - even if they just want to ... 