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Letter "C" » civil rights
«The Court today completes the process of converting [Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964] from a guarantee that race or sex will not be the basis for often will.»
Author: Antonin Scalia
| Keywords:
civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Act of 1964, converting, guarantee, sex act, The Court, title, VII
«The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves.»
Author: Shirley Chisholm
(Politician)
| Keywords:
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«I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle of the two races in the Southern states. The Negroes may long remain slaves without complaining; but if they are once raised to the level of freemen, they will soon revolt at being deprived of almost all their civil rights; and as they cannot become the equals of the whites, they will speedily show themselves as enemies.»
Author: Alexis de Tocqueville
(Historian, Political scientist)
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«There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.»
Author: Hubert H. Humphrey
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
at issue, civil, civil right, civil rights, issue, rushing, rush out
«The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| Keywords:
Abraham, Abraham Lincoln, bull, civil rights, Civil Rights movement, Lincoln, owes
«I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Voting
| Keywords:
civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Act of 1964, voted
«I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| Keywords:
civil rights, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Act of 1964, gunpoint
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