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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140410:00:48:00

right. but you re speaking to whether it s the paycheck fairness act, the gender parody, or they also had a session this week there on marriage equality and gay rights and understanding that in the context of civil rights, something you ve also spoken about. what is the challenge there? what did you learn from your work for lbj, about how you can take something that s become popular in spirit, and try to enact it so it is popular on the floor of the congress? there was, at the time i was there, a live, live energy about getting these things done. that energy is not there today. it is, in theory, the right thing to do. but we don t hear people saying, this has to be done for the good of this country. we ll give up this or that in order to achieve it. we have the opposition of basic rights being treated the same as giving as those basic rights. part of it is the fault of the media, for not really exercising as they should, part of it is the fault of democrats, who don t push hard e ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140410:07:58:00

Of action today. let me put the question to you. do you think a piece of legislation like this could pass today? and do you think the republican party needs to root itself more seriously in equal protection work in the congress? i think a republican party that wants to be taken seriously has to be attentive to the civil rights and civil liberties of all of its citizens. that s always within my sense. i was involved intimately in the last major bipartisan civil rights legislation passed, and that was the americans with disabilities act in 1990. and i saw up close, precisely, how men and weapon ofgood will can rally around an issue that has finally arrived and the ada passage was just such an occasion. and when you look in the voting rights context, why do you think that issue has become so politically controversial, especially for the gop today? it s about voting. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140410:00:58:00

Of action today. let me put the question to you. do you think a piece of legislation like this could pass today? and do you think the republican party needs to root itself more seriously in equal protection work in the congress? i think a republican party that wants to be taken seriously has to be attentive to the civil rights and civil liberties of all of its citizens. that s always within my sense. i was involved intimately in the last major bipartisan civil rights legislation passed, and that was the americans with disabilities act in 1990. and i saw up close, precisely, how men and weapon ofgood will can rally around an issue that has finally arrived and the ada passage was just such an occasion. and when you look in the voting rights context, why do you think that issue has become so politically controversial, especially for the gop today? it s about voting. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140410:00:49:00

Kind of silly to be comparing barack obama to lyndon johnson. that does not get anything in particular done today. what we have to think about is what we do now in the year 2014, in order to reach those folks who have their heads in the sand, about civil rights and about the rights of women and the rights of people who want to have only just the right to live in a society that is supposed to be a democracy. how much, when you were there, was president johnson speaking about the outside pressure, about martin luther king, about naacp? well wi, i think that s a ve good point. he saw that outside pressure. i worked with him. there was dorothy hyde, there was roy wilkins, whitney young, jim farmar from core. martin was a very important part of it, but also extraordinarily important, as important as martin was a. phillip randolph, who was a moving force and ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140410:03:49:00

Kind of silly to be comparing barack obama to lyndon johnson. that does not get anything in particular done today. what we have to think about is what we do now in the year 2014, in order to reach those folks who have their heads in the sand, about civil rights and about the rights of women and the rights of people who want to have only just the right to live in a society that is supposed to be a democracy. how much, when you were there, was president johnson speaking about the outside pressure, about martin luther king, about naacp? well, i think that s a very good point. he saw that outside pressure. i worked with him. there was dorothy hyde, there was roy wilkins, whitney young, jim farmar from core. martin was a very important part of it, but also extraordinarily important, as important as martin was a. phillip randolph, who was a moving force and actually was the head of the white house civil rights conference that i ran for the president in 1966. ....

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