Health is a human necessity; health is a human right
James LenhartTags: civil-rights human-rights health-care-system affordable-care-act health-care-reform patient-protection
Before God and high heaven, is there a law for one man which is not a law for every other man?
Howard ZinnTags: equality history faith government civil-rights
In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies...but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Between George W. Bush and Barack Obama, the US Constitution is no longer worth the paper it's written on.
Michelle TempletTags: politics civil-rights constitution
Your right to swing your arm leaves off where my right not to have my nose struck begins.
John B. FinchTags: civil-rights
If there is no final place for civil disobedience, then the government has been made autonomous, and as such, it has been put in the place of the living God.
Francis A. SchaefferTags: politics civil-rights
However much history may be invoked in support of these policies (affirmative action), no policy can apply to history but can only apply to the present or the future. The past may be many things, but it is clearly irrevocable. Its sins can no more be purged than its achievements can be expunged. Those who suffered in centuries past are as much beyond our help as those who sinned are beyond our retribution.
Thomas SowellTags: civil-rights racism affirmative-action
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 in reverse." This formulation, in terms of power - and power is the arena in which racism is acted out - means absolutely nothing: it may even be described as a cowardly formulation. The powerless, by definition, can never be "racists," for they can never make the world pay for what they feel or fear except by the suicidal endeavor which makes them fanatics or revolutionaries, or both.
James BaldwinTags: civil-rights racism
I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, "Martin, Martin, come quickly!" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: "Darling, it's empty!
Martin Luther King Jr.Tags: oppression civil-rights king bus montgomery coretta
Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.
Dick GregoryTags: humor comedy civil-rights racism
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