Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
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In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They're the content, the day-to-day: work, life. But people are sensitive to national rights.
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
The right to vote is one of our nation's most important civil rights.
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.
There has been far too much hypocrisy in the field of civil rights. It is easy enough to give rousing speeches or call for legislation which has no possibility of passage.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.
Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.
I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.
I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.
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