Quotes tagged ‘Civil Rights’

“US Rep. John Lewis, a civil rights legend and longtime congressman, has died at the age of 80.”

— CNN, cnn.com

“I grew up in a city that is the most beautiful, blackest city in the country, the city of Detroit and every corner is a reminder of the civil rights movement. I saw what oppression and equality looks like, I saw that separate but equal doesn’t work.”

— Rashida Tlaib, jewishinsider.com

“If folks are going to be about the business of rolling back every civil right protection bit of progress that we’ve made, decades of progress, what I’m going to be focused on is fighting like hell to make it very hard for them — and very painful — every step of the way.”

— Ayanna Pressley, politico.com

“[to Mary] I don’t want to see you get hurt. NASA’s never ever given you guys your due. Having a couple of extra degree ain’t gonna change that. Civil rights ain’t always civil.”

— Allison Schroeder, Theodore Melfi, Levi Jackson, Aldis Hodge, imdb.com

“Civil rights violatin' mothafuckas.”

— David Ayer, Blue, Snoop Dogg, imdb.com

“It's not just about abortion, it's about the next 20 years. Twenties and Thirties it was the role of government, Fifties and Sixties it was civil rights. The next two decades it's gonna be privacy. I'm talking about the Internet. I'm talking about cell phones. I'm talking about health records and wh…”

— Dee Dee Myers, Aaron Sorkin, Patrick Caddell, Sam Seaborn, Rob Lowe, imdb.com

“Lou Grant: What religion are you? Mary Richards: Mr. Grant, I don't quite know how to say this, but you're not allowed to ask that when someone's applying for a job. It's against the law. Lou Grant: Wanna call a cop? Mary Richards: No. Lou Grant: Good. Would you think I was violating your civil righ…”

— James L. Brooks, Lou Grant, Ed Asner, imdb.com

“I think the movement contributed to this nation a sense of universal freedom. Precisely because women saw our movement in the sixties, stimulated them to want their rights. The fact that students saw the movement of the sixties created a student movement in this country. The fact that the people wer…”

— Bayard Rustin, en.wikiquote.org

“I think this is a tough time in American history if you believe in justice, openness and civil rights. Really tough.”

— Walter Mondale, time.com

“You know, I lived in this country at a time when we had segregation. I was in the middle of all the civil rights fights in the '60s and the '70s. And thank God we've gotten rid of official discrimination.”

— Walter Mondale, realclearpolitics.com

“We elected Johnson and Humphrey and because we had a successful convention, we had the largest range of fundamental civil rights adopted in our history. The Voting Rights Act, the Fair Housing Act the other major measures. All of the programs for educational assistance, poverty assistance early chil…”

— Walter Mondale, repository.wustl.edu

“I’m a strong pro-civil rights advocate; they were pushing against an open door in terms of the objective of civil rights and preventing any future lily white, segregated delegations.”

— Walter Mondale, repository.wustl.edu

“Now bear in mind that Lyndon Johnson and Hubert Humphrey probably in American history, are the strongest pro-civil rights people in history as, as President/Vice President. I also had a strong record and have a strong record. We were trying to set up a system here that from there on out, would in ef…”

— Walter Mondale, repository.wustl.edu

“In the last few weeks, there has been talk of causes, cures, and civil rights. The proposed remedies are many. Their efficacy is uncertain. The truth is, it seems to me, that there is no one solution, but there are many solutions. Our cities are beset by a multitude of ills, which can be cured only…”

— Walter Mondale, moses.law.umn.edu

“You have the right to remain silent because whatever you say will probably be stupid, anyway.”

— Unknown, thoughtcatalog.com

“But notwithstanding all this, in many parts of our country where the colored population is large the people of that race are by various devices deprived of any effective exercise of their political rights and of many of their civil rights. The wrong does not expend itself upon those whose votes are…”

— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org

“When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have those full civil rights which have so long been his in law? When is that equality of influence which our form of government was intended to secure to the electors to be restored? This generation should…”

— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org

“I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.”

— Stokely Carmichael, edchange.org

“Here’s the fact that I heard, but haven’t confirmed. I heard that when Martin Luther King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and said he had a dream, he was speaking into a PA system that Bill Cosby paid for. So, you understand what I’m saying? The point is this: He rapes, but he saves. And…”

— Dave Chappelle, scrapsfromtheloft.com

“I voted against the Civil Rights Act and I'd probably vote against it again. No one has the right to tell me who I have the right to rent a room to.”

— Barry Goldwater, upi.com