When community action was put into federal law in the early sixties as part of the effort to combat poverty and social injustice, I supported it intellectually.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
I authored the Universal National Service Act because I believe that everyone in America should contribute to the greater good of America.
Respectfully, the civil rights movement for people with disabilities is modeled on the African American civil rights movement. I'm old enough to remember 1964. I was a junior in high school.
I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.
I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.
I have been a long and strong supporter of civil rights in my whole career. I led the fight to get the voting rights act re-enacted. I have been a strong supporter of affirmative action. I believe in it strongly.
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perfectly reasonable to enact legislation in which poor people were the objects of efforts to assist them.
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