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Civil-rights Quotes
"I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights."
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"There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites."
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"To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed."
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"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."
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"When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement."
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"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."
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"Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today."
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"Let me be clear: There is no stronger advocate for civil liberties in the Senate than myself."
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"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."
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"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."
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"The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody."
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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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"The ideals and principles for which Dr King fought have never been forgotten and are as relevant today as they were 40 years ago."
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