“I remember the (black) civil rights struggle, when we had people like Harry Belafonte coming forth and being at the head and knowing the subject matter really well. We're missing that here.”
Alex Nogales
“We need to guarantee equal rights and civil rights and say that, here in America, workers have the right to organize - women have the right to choose - and justice belongs to everyone regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation.”
Senator John Kerry
“Immigration is the No. 2 issue after civil rights. Civil rights right now is what's keeping people from demonstrating.”
Osama Siblani
“I see this as a civil rights issue. People who are gay have a right to be treated equally.”
Paul Ash
“When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.”
Marquis De Lafayette
“In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining... We demand this fraud be stopped.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
