This movement is like a sleeping giant that has awakened. Some people have called this the next civil-rights movement.
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This is a battle, but it's not the war. We consider this one of the civil-rights issues of the 21st century, and we're going to continue to fight it, in Florida and elsewhere.
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Civil Rights: What black folks are given in the U.S. On the installment plan, as in civil-rights bills. Not to be confused with human rights, which are the dignity, stature, humanity, respect, and freedom belonging to all people by right of their birth.
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People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
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If not us, then who?If not now, then when?
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[A]lthough the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.
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Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
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You have to remember, rights don't come in groups we shouldn't have 'gay rights'; rights come as individuals, and we wouldn't have this major debate going on. It would be behavior that would count, not what person belongs to what group.
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The freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose.
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It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others.
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Initially, the purveyors of racism need no more than the silent acquiescence of the public.. [I]t is never too soon to confront bigotry and racism whenever, wherever, and in whatever form it raises its ugly head. It is incumbent upon all people to confront even the slightest hint of racist thought or action with zero tolerance.
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All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not stakes. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should prevail. I am willing to leave it to the majority. Its obligation, therefore, never exceeds that of expediency. Even voting FOR THE RIGHT is DOING nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail.
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If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American -- our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women's rights as part of its reforms. Ironically, the section on women's rights was added by a senator from Virginia who opposed the whole thing and was said to be sure that if he stuck something about womens' rights into it, it would never pass. The bill passed anyway, though, much to the chagrin of a certain wiener from Virginia.
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In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.
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If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.
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I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality
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It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.
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A state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens.
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The underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us..
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If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the Living God.
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Between George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the US Constitution is no longer worth the paper it's written on.
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Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.
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Religious institutions that use government power in support of themselves and force their views on persons of other faiths, or of no faith, undermine all our civil rights. Moreover, state support of an established religion tends to make the clergy unresponsive to their own people, and leads to corruption within religion itself. Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state,' therefore, is absolutely essential in a free society.
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To cheapen the lives of any group of men, cheapens the lives of all men, even our own. This is a law of human psychology, or human nature. And it will not be repealed by our wishes, nor will it be merciful to our blindness.
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