I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders.
We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.
No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.
I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
To me, I know that if we could pass the Civil Rights Act of '64 over 50 years ago, then we can pass Justice for All Civil Rights Act. We can pass Medicare for All.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.
Where laws recognize rights to collective bargaining, the truth is that employee rights to negotiate with employers are denied in many countries.
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.
Civil rights activists and union activists shared not just common values and objectives but also common enemies.
It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.
The Confederacy was formed for the purpose of seceding from the Union because those states could not part with their rights to own slaves.
Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
Consider the rights of others before your own feelings, and the feelings of others before your own rights.
