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"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."
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"Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today."
"Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson."
"The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved."
"I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961."
"I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights."
"There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it."
"There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites."
"The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody."
"When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement."
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"We've got to clear some of the room out of the prisons so we can put the bad guys in there, like the pedophiles and the politicians."
"And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians."
"We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning."
"Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and be honest."
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