Rand Paul Quotes

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

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.

Desegregation is a joke.

The time to end racial segregation in the South is upon us now.

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal.

Forced integration is just as wrong as forced segregation.

I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law.

I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.

If white America is ready to extend complete democratic rights to colored people, there will be no race, no racial tension and no racial prejudice on either side, but we can be sure that any movement 'back to normalcy' in race relations will be bitterly resisted by colored people. It is now up to white America to make its choice...

Secure to all … citizens a perfect equality of rights

The Negro claims, as a matter of simple justice, his full share in America's economic and social life. He sees adequate employment opportunities as a chief means of attaining this goal

Essentially, Eisenhower passed on to his successors the problem of guaranteeing constitutional rights to Negro citizens.

We are confronted primarily with a moral issue. The heart of the question is whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities…. This nation … will not be fully free until all its citizens are free.

Southern attempts to deny blacks equal rights were turning the Constitution into a sublime and beautiful scripture—into a horrid charter of wrong.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary.

Martin Luther King told American Blacks not to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Men have no special right because they belong to one race or another: the word man defines all rights.