The black experience isn't exclusively slavery/civil rights/Obama. — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority. — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
Nothing could be more insulting to me than the concept of civil rights. It means perpetual second-class citizenship for me and my… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
“In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a man's skin the criteria for granting him… — Julius Nyerere Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
When I hear someone’s in the civil rights business, I oil up my AR-25. — Michael Savage Copy Share Image
President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement. — Michael Tubbs Copy Share Image
There is this pressure for us to only tell stories about slavery and the civil rights era, but there are many of… — Nia DaCosta Copy Share Image
Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create… — Mary Frances Berry Copy Share Image
When I think about our HBCUs, I think of icons like my mentor Jim Clyburn, a South Carolina State graduate, who fought… — Jaime Harrison Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement is something I've looked into a lot. When I was about 23, I started reading up on it… — Andre Gray Copy Share Image
Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful… — Pramila Jayapal Copy Share Image
This thing called Patriot Act, through which we abdicated a lot of our civil rights to defend the country against terrorism, it's… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother… — Yaya DaCosta Copy Share Image
It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Civil rights, as we may remember, are reducible to three primary heads; the right of personal security; the right of personal liberty;… — St. George Tucker Copy Share Image
I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
I think that it is true that Eleanor Roosevelt, by being so active on that front, contributed to that impression very substantially.… — William A. Rusher Copy Share Image
When I was at 'Newsweek' magazine - which, you know, this really sounds like I walked four miles in the snow to… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in… — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Copy Share Image
Under the president's spying program, there are no checks and balances. There is no outside review of the legality of this brazen… — Samuel Alito Copy Share Image
I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared… — Pauley Perrette Copy Share Image
“Frederick Douglass called Republicans the ‘Party of freedom and progress,’ and the first Republican president was Abraham Lincoln, the author of the… — Elbert Guillory Copy Share Image
“Most people remember COINTELPRO from the days of the Black Panthers, Yippies, and other revolutionary groups who threatened our government during the… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“In 1963 activists demanding racial justice forced President Kennedy to come out for civil rights legislation. Within a year and a half… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“widespread. Some states go so far as to forcibly sterilize people with certain disabilities. Some prohibit marriage for the genetically disabled, for… — Ben Mattlin Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“Advance Praise for THE GREAT NEW ORLEANS KIDNAPPING CASE: RACE, LAW, AND JUSTICE IN THE RECONSTRUCTION ERA "Michael Ross' The Great New… — Michael A. Ross Copy Share Image
“In the 20th century, it became more and more the norm for judges to incorrectly instruct juries that they must consider only… — Mark David Ledbetter Copy Share Image
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