The ability to close the achievement gap is the civil rights issue of our generation, ... This is the way to do it.

The Achievement Scholarship Award was originally founded during the 1960s Civil Rights Act and is specifically for African-American high school students. It's a much smaller program but operates in a very parallel way.

He put forth an anti-Rosa Parks judge. ... Just maybe, we need a White House conference on civil rights.

[(AP) CBC Wants Roberts Probed on Civil Rights: A Roberts who would limit the Supreme Court's reach would please the 10 Republicans on the committee, who used their opening statements Monday to complain about the Supreme Court's reach into areas they felt were more properly left to local, state and national legislators.] Perhaps the Supreme Court's most notorious exercise of raw political power came in Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton, two 1973 cases based on false statements which invented a constitutional right to abortion, ... The issue had been handled by the people through their elected representatives prior to that time.

John Roberts consistently has taken the most narrow, restrictive views of civil rights and women's rights.

There are those who say to you -- we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.