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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil Rights Act Quotes
A landmark law, still part of the conversation.
These Civil Rights Act quotes address the law's foundational promise of equal treatment and how it continues to shape political debate, a theme also found in our America quotes.
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- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Race to race, the Republicans are putting up candidates that are quite far out of the mainstream in terms of should we have passed the Civil Rights Act or does Social Security need to exist.
- Favor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
To me, I know that if we could pass the Civil Rights Act of '64 over 50 years ago, then we can pass Justice for All Civil Rights Act. We can pass Medicare for All.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rejecting the fundamental provision of the Civil Rights Act is a rejection of the foundational promise of America that all men and women should be treated equally, a promise for which many Americans have lost their lives.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage of Republicans voted for that than did Democrats. But a Democrat president signed it, so they co-opted credit for having passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
- Air
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- Nov 07, 2020