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    Okay, so here's my question: When did civility become incompatible with protest? Why do some people consider civility an antonym - anathema, even - to political action and dissent? Because, and I'm raising my voice, it's not. Have we forgotten how Mahatma Gandhi used nonviolent civil disobedience to free India from British rule and inspire civil rights movements worldwide?

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    One wonders if Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's administrations may come to be viewed, in the future, as having been underestimated in some respects. To be sure, each ended in failure. Nonetheless, Johnson's accomplishments in civil rights and immigration legislation, and Nixon's in respect to relations with China, may loom larger with the passage of time.

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    Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

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    Racial prejudices are indication of a disturbed and potentially unstable society.

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    Private enterprise manages so much better all the concerns to which it is equal.

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    Racism has always been able to come up with a scientific veneer.

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    Remember, we are not fighting for the freedom of the Negro alone, but for the freedom of the human spirit a larger freedom that encompasses all mankind.

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    Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer than most other Americans with the possible exception of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant. The first blacks in Congress and the first black Governor were all Republicans. It was Republicans who fought the Civil War over slavery and who introduced the Civil Rights legislation over the next hundred years.

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    The advent of the civil rights movement during the 50s and 60s made it very plain crystal clear to me that we had an obligation to do what we could to make real the Constitution of the United States of America.

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    Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back

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    The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

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    The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

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    The black revolt is as palpable in letters as it is in the streets.

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    The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers.

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    The day we see the truth and cease to speak is the day we begin to die

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    The day for the Negro man being a coward is over.

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    The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

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    The failures of the past must not be an excuse for the inaction of the present and the future.

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    The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will consume these engines and all who work them.

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    The greatest right of a civilized person is to be left alone, unless he does harm to others or is threatening to do harm to himself.

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    The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

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    There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle.

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    The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

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    There was no miracle that night.

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    The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us. It is better to keep the wolf out of the fold, than to trust to drawing his teeth and talons after he shall have entered.

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    Though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable.

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    Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor.

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    Under the privilege of the First Amendment many, many ridiculous things are said.

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    We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything.

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    The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.

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    We must not always judge of the generality of the opinion by the noise of the acclamation.

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    We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.

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    We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

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    To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

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    What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So part of it, he's paying homage to this tradition that you can tell serious stories and talk about serious issues in graphic form.

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    When people are forced to interact to survive, their prejudices diminish.

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    We are not makers of history. We are made by history.

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    Would America have been America without her Negro people?

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    You've got the whole civil rights movements emanating from the south, you've got the music that came out of the south that is the core of our current music, so for me that thinking comes out of having Dukes of Hazzard thrown in your face: that the south is a bunch of twangy people that I can't understand. So this is, hopefully, part of the movement to restore the south to its proper and rightful place in our nation... which is huge and pervasive. It's not about Texas - I'm not saying Texas doesn't have it's own unique history - but the south has this at its core.

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    We wanted black power to be all things to all people.

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    A Black church that isn't inherently revolutionary is irrelevant.

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    Adoptees deserve open records because deception and partial truths do not set us free.

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    According to court records, during the siege at Wounded Knee, more than two hundred and fifty thousand rounds were fired at our people by U.S. marshalls, FBI agents, the tribal police, the GOONs, and white vigilantes. These boys weren't kidding. And neither were we.

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    Adoptee rights are everyone's rights, and they deserve to be protected.

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    ...A vision from a universe where the Equal Rights Amendment--with its redefinition of personhood--is rejected by the house of deputies: A universe where to die is to become property and to be created outwith a gift of parental DNA is to be doomed to slavery.

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    A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of partial victory by which new efforts are powered.

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    Are you going to cater to the whims and prejudices of people who have no intelligent knowledge of what they condemn?

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    You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities.

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    A leader is a planter—a planter of ideas, seeds of change, and a vision for justice

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    A lot of people get upset when you say ‘shit’ or something like that. But do you realize that almost our entire country sat still while they barbecued people in Los Angeles, firebombed a house, burned the people to death? …and you see, this is part of the pathology of people who are so sensitive to some kinds of stylistic offensiveness, and so callous to real cruelty and brutality.