“This is not your grandmother's civil rights film. This film will challenge Black and White America , as well as Hispanic, Asian, and Muslim citizens equally.”
Jeremy Dean
“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
“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
“All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression.”
Thomas Jefferson
“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
“I will take a backseat to no one in a commitment to civil rights in America.”
Howard Dean
