“For me, the issue of gay marriage is a matter of civil rights. It is a matter of telling every single person in this state, and in this country, that you are a full and equal citizen.”— Neil Abercrombie
“This is a nonviolent movement. We're committed to this method and we will not be provoked into violence.”— Ralph Abernathy
“Title IX is one of the most important pieces of civil rights legislation ever passed.”— Birch Bayh
“It is a sad day for our city when a Negro hero, a Nobel Prize winner, cannot be honored in his own hometown.”— Ivan Allen Jr.
“Discrimination against people with mental illness and addiction is the last frontier of the civil rights movement.”— Jim Ramstad
“What you're doing is a good thing... We're going to have to do a lot of things we don't like to do to get this thing, but we have to do it.”— Daisy Bates
“This is the new civil rights issue: the right to be treated for the disease of the brain.”— Patrick J. Kennedy
“The struggle for justice is a marathon, not a sprint. You have to be in it for the long haul.”— Major Owens
“If a black boy can make it on Okinawa and Guadalcanal, hell, he can make it in baseball.”— Happy Chandler
“Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most pressing civil rights and voting rights issue of our time.”— Eleanor Holmes Norton