Mary Frances Berry

“Civil rights laws were not passed to give civil rights protection to all Americans, as the majority of this Commission seem to believe. Instead, they were passed out of a recognition that some Americans already had protection because they belonged to a favored group; and others, including blacks, Hispanics, and women of all races did not because they belonged to disfavored groups.” Joint statement with Blandina Cardenas Ramirez attached to US Civil Rights Commission Report Toward an Understanding of Stotts, January, 1985