If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
You need to fight cases in the courts, but you certainly cannot rely on the courts, you need to testify in Congress… — David D. Cole Copy Share Image
I was born at a very crucial time. I consider 1968 to be the Mason Dixon line between pre- and post-civil rights… — Questlove Copy Share Image
Peter Biskind's Easy Riders, Raging Bulls was made all about drugs, when to most of us, that just meant pot and magic… — Margot Kidder Copy Share Image
“The record is suffused with examples of groups and individuals being placed under government surveillance by virtue of their dissenting views and… — Glenn Greenwald Copy Share Image
This generation is different. They are not as interested in chasing money or material possessions. I believe that this generation is more… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to… — Jesse Helms Copy Share Image
“These and other measures, however, seemed relatively inconsequential in 1965 compared to a Big Four that passed by the end of the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“Thus, the proclaimed goal of affirmative action advocates is to "level the playing field." It is defined this way to highlight the… — David Horowitz Copy Share Image
Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
The civil rights situation is like a pregnancy. It will get worse, I believe, before it gets better. What the usual pregnancy… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
In 1948, northern liberals inserted a civil rights plank into the national Democratic platform, prompting a walkout of Southern delegations - which… — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Well, my view before was a Western view, and I certainly understand marriage equality and civil rights, equal rights for all, but… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
“During extraordinary historical moments—both world wars, the aftermath of the Great Depression, or the peak of the civil rights era—the usual categories… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know… — Endesha Ida Mae Holland Copy Share Image
America in the age of Donald Trump is more permissive of explicit racism than it's been at any point since the civil… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
Because of tax laws governing charities, including almost every single civil rights organization you've ever heard of, including the NAACP, the Urban… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
Republicans have reached out so much to black Republicans because it's part of our tradition. Blacks have been in this nation longer… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all… — Coretta Scott King Copy Share Image
Obama was elected in a flourish of promise that many in the African-American community believed would help not only to symbolize African-American… — Douglas Wilder Copy Share Image
When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
“Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
In your ordered verdict of guilty, you have trampled under foot every vital principle of our government. My natural rights, my civil… — Susan B. Anthony Copy Share Image
It is long past time to eliminate bigotry in the workplace and to ensure equal opportunity for all Americans. It is time… — Tom Harkin Copy Share Image
There was an email forwarded to me from a first-grade teacher, and she said she was teaching them civil rights for MLK… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
The upside of being a part of a post-civil rights generation is that black folks really are more diverse. But the flash… — Reginald Hudlin Copy Share Image
I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I was from my little perch in a prep school I saw the civil rights movement and it was defining the moral… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
Census data is used to determine more than $675 billion in federal funding; it is a demographic Rosetta Stone that is referenced… — Alex Wagner Copy Share Image
“As Ellison's black protagonist exclaimed in Invisible Man, "You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
I am obliged to confess that I do not regard the abolition of slavery as a means of warding off the struggle… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the… — Marian Wright Edelman Copy Share Image
We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have… — Chuck Woolery Copy Share Image
![“There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or something like Soundtrack for a Revolution, about the power of the music of the civil rights movement [which he executive produced in 2009]. Or Bamako…” quote by Danny Glover](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/755/danny-glover-7902_cinema_there-are-things-that-make-me-excited-ab_273405.jpg)
![“As Ellison's black protagonist exclaimed in Invisible Man, "You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're part of all the sound and anguish, and you strike out with your fists, you curse and you swear to make them [whites] recognize you."30 This did…” quote by James T. Patterson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/1db/james-t-patterson-3417_black-power_as-ellison-s-black-protagonist-exclaimed_617730.jpg)
![“We were born with natural rights. We don't need civil rights. [African-Americans] don't need civil rights. They don't need them. They have inalienable rights granted by God in the Constitution. I mean, I'm discriminated against all the time. I don't care. It doesn't bother me. [I'm discriminated…” quote by Chuck Woolery](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/877/chuck-woolery-16119_african-american_we-were-born-with-natural-rights-we-don_48287.png)
