“The civil rights movement and the peace movement was not made from big names ... and I wanted to come on the anniversary with ordinary people that are doing what I think Dr. King would have wanted us to do today.”
Al Sharpton
“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
“In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“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.”
Mary Frances Berry
“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.
“All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination.”
Roger Sherman
“Immigration is the No. 2 issue after civil rights. Civil rights right now is what's keeping people from demonstrating.”
Osama Siblani
