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Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of...

—Shannon L. Alder

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Although the principle of equality has always been self-evident, it has never been self-executing.

—Barack Obama

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The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed...

—Anthony Liccione

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The judge is the last line of defense when other agencies are trying to crack down on people’s civil rights. It’s a welcomed ruling.

—Bob Johnson

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We were to write a short essay on one of the works we read in the course and relate it to our lives. I chose the “Allegory of the Cave” in Plato’s Republic. I compared...

—Francisco Jiménez

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If not us, then who?If not now, then when?

—John E. Lewis

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Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

—United Nations

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Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget.

—Bill T.

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If a bullet should enter my brain, let that bullet destroy every closet door.

—Harvey Milk

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They have done what they set out to do … to engage the wider community in their fight for civil rights.

—Renee Asher

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Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.

—Shannon L. Alder

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As day is to a sword, night is to a shield.

—Anthony Liccione

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While growing up, on the news every night was the war in Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement. We were all talking about what was happening when Kennedy got killed and King got killed. The...

—Eugene Dial

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The Algerians were revolutionsists, they wanted land. France offered to let them be integrated into France. They told France, to hell with Fance, they wanted some land, not some France.

—Malcolm X

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There are no secrets on the Internet

—Paul Babicki

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Before, the woods had always done so much for me. Once I could actually go out into the woods and communicate with God, or Nature or something. Now that something didn’t come through. It was...

—Anne Moody

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Funny, for all surveillance, Osama bin Laden is still free and we’re not. Guess who’s winning the “war on terror?

—Cory Doctorow

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I, too, sing America.I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong.Tomorrow,I’ll be at the tableWhen company comes.Nobody’ll dareSay to me,”Eat in the kitchen,”Then.Besides,They’ll...

—Langston Hughes

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[T]he full and complete development of a country, the welfare of the world and the cause of peace require the maximum participation of women on equal terms with men in all fields.”[Convention on the Elimination...

—United Nations

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For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. Racism and...

—Audre Lorde

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Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

—Martin Luther

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Immigration is the No. 2 issue after civil rights. Civil rights right now is what’s keeping people from demonstrating.

—Osama Siblani

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In the years since his murder, we have transformed King into a kind of innocuous black Santa Claus.

—Timothy B.

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It was one of the main gripes of the early civil rights movement and the NAACP, … It was the major battle that they fought, because this was major propaganda.

—Bruce Tyler

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Don’t rely on others to speak for you. It would be a miracle that anything got done in the world.

—Isabella Poretsis

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Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly...

—James Madison

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Peonage, Anti-Lynch Bill, poll tax, these are our issues. They are the most controversial issues in American life, and some of us will have to die for them! Yes, we want to join with the...

—Ralph Ellison

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really helped bail out the civil-rights movement.

—Andrew Young

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Plus I have no doubt that their garden is also where my grandparents dreamed—for a better life of equality for their grandchildren and future generations. As people rooted in their faith, they probably did a...

—Deborah L.

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[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

—John Lewis

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These examples and many others demonstrate an alarming trend whereby the privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But...

—William O.

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Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don’t care who reads them.

—Augusta Scattergood

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Only a “dry as dust” religion prompts a minister to extol the glories of Heaven while ignoring the social conditions that cause men an Earthly hell.

—Martin Luther

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intent on reversing decades of policies on civil rights, voting rights, women’s rights, privacy and access to justice.

—Patrick Leahy

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Principles are meant to serve people, not people serving to uphold the principle, while harming the people.

—Shannon L. Alder

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I could never appoint someone to the Supreme Court who I thought would turn back the clock on civil rights, … overblown.

—Bill Bradley

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I didn`t change. The Democratic Party slid to the Left from right under me.

—Charlton Heston

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When asked what gave her the strength and commitment to refuse segregation, (Rosa) Parks credited her mother and grandfather “for giving me the spirit of freedom… that I should not feel because of my race...

—Jeanne Theoharis

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What is taking place here should be made very clear: Citizens who are completely innocent of any legal wrongdoing and simply minding their own business–not seeking any litigation and neither convicted nor accused of any...

—Stephen Baskerville

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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...

—Barack Obama

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It must be remembered that in those great days I was considered to be an “integrationist” – this was never, quite, my own idea of myself – and Malcolm was considered to be a “racist...

—James Baldwin

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Children’s liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

—Letty Pogrebin

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People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true. I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of...

—Rosa Parks

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I knew that, in a large degree, we were trying an experiment–that of testing whether or not it was possible for Negroes to build up and control the affairs of a large education institution. I...

—Booker T.

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Be wary of those propagating too much about liberty, ideology, and civility; they just might be oppressors in the making.

—Aniruddha Sastikar

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We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but...

—Martin Luther

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Rather, I plead with you to see a mode of life in our midst, a mode of life stunted and distorted, but possessing its own laws and claims, an existence of men growing out of...

—Richard Wright

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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...

—Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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It is not our intention to violate people’s civil rights. Our intentions are noble — to save people’s lives.

—Jaspher Ombati

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Wir sind das Volk!”Dieser Satz hat uns gelehrt, dass wir, wenn wir unserer Sehnsucht glauben und ihr vertrauen, die Angst verlieren können. Eine Angst, die willfährige Dienerin jeder Art von nicht legitimierter Herrschaft ist, die...

—Joachim Gauck

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