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civil rights
«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.»
Author: Dick Gregory
| Keywords:
belonging, bills, Bill of Rights, black people, civil, civil right, civil rights, confused, Human rights, installment, installments, installment plan, stature, statures, the US
«If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.»
Author: Kinky Friedman
(Novelist, Politician, Singer, Song Writer)
| Keywords:
bus, civil rights, Civil Rights movement, Nelson, refuses, Rosa, Rosa Parks, The Bus, Willie Nelson
«Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.»
Author: Mary Frances Berry
(Writer)
| About:
Civil rights,
Opportunity,
Right
| Keywords:
civil, civil right, civil rights, get through, windows
«A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.»
Author: W. E. B. Du Bois
(Civil-Rights Leader, Scholar, Sociologist)
| Keywords:
bills, Bill of Rights, civil rights, complaint, dogged, manly
«He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.»
«If the evens 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.»
Author: Jon Stewart
(Actor, Comedian)
| Keywords:
American, Ashcroft, attack, attorney, attorneys, Attorney General, civil, civil liberties, civil liberty, civil right, civil rights, evens, general, john, John A, John Ashcroft, John D, liberty, proven, rights, right to liberty, September, September 11, take away, terrorists, terrorist attack, terrorist attacks
«A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman... They are both... lawbreakers, destroyers of constitutional rights and liberties and ultimately destroyers of a free America.»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
America and Americans,
Constitution,
Freedom
| Keywords:
civil, civil liberties, civil liberty, civil rights, cocktail, cocktails, constitutional, constitutional right, constitutional rights, destroyers, Klansman, lawbreaker, lawbreakers, liberties, Molotov, Molotov cocktail, rioter, rioters, The Destroyers
«A rioter with a Molotov cocktail in his hands is not fighting for civil rights any more than a Klansman with a sheet on his back and a mask on his face»
Author: Lyndon B. Johnson
(President)
| About:
Civil rights,
Conflict
| Keywords:
civil rights, Klansman, Molotov, Molotov cocktail, rioter, rioters, sheet
«In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
bargained, bargaining, bargains, civil, civil right, civil rights, collective, collective bargaining, demand, fooled, fraud, frauds, glorious, guard, into the bargain, in the bargain, Labor unions, provides, right to work, slogans, stopped, The Bargain, unions
