A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
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I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.
So many of us had hoped that the civil system might be an alternative for some women, where the burdens were a little bit less, and cases might be easier to prove.
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.
So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; it's not because of the rebellions that are occurring in the major cities.
Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.
I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
Can any of you seriously say the Bill of Rights could get through Congress today? It wouldn't even get out of committee.
Who needs the protection of the Bill of Rights most? The weak, the most vulnerable in society.
Though it's impossible for us to legislate one's thoughts and feelings, we still need things like affirmative action in place because without measures like it, people in charge would not have, sadly, enough impetus to do, as cliched as it sounds, the right thing.
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