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Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

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.

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.

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.

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.

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.

Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

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.

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.