A federal Voters' Bill of Rights could press the states to put non-partisan managers in charge of elections.
The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.
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.
During Black History Month, I'm reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle for workers' rights.
A state of war is not a blank check... when it comes to the rights of the Nation's citizens.
One man's blasphemy doesn't override other people's free-speech rights, their freedom to publish, freedom of thought.
Getting to a 1 rating in households is a sign that we're building momentum. It gives us bragging rights.
I'm just glad that I have bragging rights to working with Bugs and Daffy.
The rivalry is huge between South Carolina and Clemson. It's major bragging rights; one of the most intense things I've been a part of.
The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the agencies enforcing the Covenant concerned with civil and political rights.
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary.
All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.
Since the days of Greece and Rome, when the word 'citizen' was a title of honor, we have often seen more emphasis put on the rights of citizenship than on its responsibilities.
Elections remind us not only of the rights but the responsibilities of citizenship in a democracy.
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.
Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.
There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.
