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During times of emergencies, civil crisis, or natural disasters it is important for persons to remain free to exercise their constitutional rights in a lawful and appropriate manner, and I believe it is important that we provide individuals with specific reassurance that we value those rights.

~Colleen Hanabusa

Topics: Appropriate Believe Civil Constitutional Crisis Disasters Emergencies Exercise Free Important Individuals Lawful Manner Natural Natural Disasters Persons Provide Reassurance Remain Rights Specific Those Times Value I Believe

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I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.

~Colm Toibin

Topics: About Area Around Barcelona Before Between Civil Civil War Did Even Flavors Grew High Irish Knew Like Liked Live More Mountains Pillars Place Spanish Than Then Twenty Village War

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When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can you imagine, in the middle of the IRA bombing campaigns? I saw an ad inviting Irish applicants for an induction course, so I signed up.

~Colm Toibin

Topics: Ad Bombing Campaigns Civil Course English Exotic Imagine Inviting Ira Irish Middle Most Saw Servant Signed Thing Thought Time Up Wanted You

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In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes on the civil rights era and 40 minutes on Martin Luther King, and that's it.

~Colson Whitehead

Topics: Abraham Abraham Lincoln Civil Civil Rights Did Era Fifth Grade King Lincoln Luther Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Might Minutes Rights Slavery You

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King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

~Constance Baker Motley

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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

~Constance Baker Motley

Topics: Become Civil Civil Rights Had King Leader Media New Reckoning Rights

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Gay and lesbian people have families, and their families should have legal protection, whether by marriage or civil union.

~Coretta Scott King

Topics: Civil Families Gay Legal Lesbian Marriage People Protection Should Union Whether

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Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as a complex, three-dimensional, flesh-and-blood human being with a rich storehouse of experiences, much like everyone else, yet unique in my own way, much like everyone else.

~Coretta Scott King

Topics: Activist Also Am Being Civil Civil Rights Complex Else Everyone Everyone Else Experiences Human Human Being Human Rights Identified Leader Like Much My Own Own Rich Rights Sometimes Thought Three-Dimensional Unique Way Would I Am

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Civil rights leaders, including my husband and Albert Turner, have fought long and hard to achieve free and unfettered access to the ballot box. Mr. Sessions has used the awesome power of his office to chill the free exercise of the vote by black citizens in the district he now seeks to serve as a federal judge.

~Coretta Scott King

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Mr. Sessions' conduct as a U.S. Attorney, from his politically-motivated voting fraud prosecutions to his indifference toward criminal violations of civil rights laws, indicated that he lacks the temperament, fairness and judgment to be a federal judge.

~Coretta Scott King

Topics: Attorney Civil Civil Rights Conduct Criminal Fairness Federal Fraud He His Indifference Judge Judgment Lacks Laws Rights Temperament Toward Violations Voting Mr

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