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!
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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 is unfinished business. Make it your business.
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.
We're losing our way as a society. If we don't stand up, if we don't say what we think those rights should be, and if we don't protect them, we will very soon find out that we do not have them.
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.
If someone tried to deprive you of your rights, you've got to resist it. You've got to resent it. You've got to fight against it.
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.
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