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Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

Civil rights and women's rights and gay rights all take time in this country.

If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.

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.

Civil rights in this country is unfinished business, and racism is alive and well.

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.

We need to fight for the equal rights of citizens.