Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my kind.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.
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.
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
I am not a civil rights leader, and I don't profess to be one.
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
Emancipation from every kind of bondage is my principle. I go for recognition of human rights, without distinction of sect, party, sex, or color.
I have a big passion about civil rights for everyone - whoever is being downtrodden at the moment, it doesn't matter: racial discrimination or sexual orientation or gender. Whatever it is, I'm there. I think I was a born civil rights activist. I can't stand the smashing of a community. It's not fair and it's not right.
I am an American citizen and feel I am entitled to the same rights as any other citizen.