We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.