“I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.” — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church. — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility. — Diane Nash Copy Share Image
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I am very proud of the fact that I led the arts contingent on the civil rights march in the summer of… — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was… — Peter Riegert Copy Share Image
When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part… — Patrisse Cullors Copy Share Image
What is interesting is that John Lewis actually got interested initially in the civil rights movement because of a comic book. So… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
Because when we look at the modern civil rights movement under the leadership of my father and the team that he developed,… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
“Out & Equal is about work. It's about authenticity. It's also about justice. Essentially it's about love, because when you get right… — Selisse Berry Copy Share Image
“My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
“History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
We've seen the worst that human beings are capable of. We've seen what happens when leaders abandon common decency in favor of… — Max Joseph Copy Share Image
I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you… — Richard Lamm Copy Share Image
You can't separate the phenomenal birth of unionism in the United States of America from the Pullman porters. This same small group… — Andre Braugher Copy Share Image
“And out in the rural, when Mrs. Laura McGhee--who if she thought it necessary, sat on the porch with her Winchester rifle--permitted… — Charles E. Cobb Jr Copy Share Image
“In Hollywood films and television documentaries, the battle lines are clearly drawn. Traditional public schools are bad; their supporters are apologists for… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“I am an American, proud to be an American, proud to be a black American. I’m not African-American. I’ve never been to… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
“A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
My issue is race. I feel black people nowadays have to conform to this one ideal. We all have to be the… — Kamanda Ndama Copy Share Image
“Many black women also kept guns within easy reach. But it is important to mention that women & their use of guns… — Charles E. Cobb Copy Share Image
“public statements condemning segregation, sharply worded telegrams to Washington, and meetings with White House officials—were demonstrably ineffectual. New and more dramatic measures… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
“The older generation scratched their heads, long comfortable in misery or ignorance now, they’d lost their need to rock the boat. Rocking… — Cindy Brandner Copy Share Image
“was my first indication that the policies of Mamaw’s “party of the working man”—the Democrats—weren’t all they were cracked up to be.… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
“I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.” — Anne Moody Copy Share Image
“Standing against discrimination for some while supporting discrimination against others hurts us all.” — DaShanne Stokes Copy Share Image
I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have… — Charlayne Hunter-Gault Copy Share Image
It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have… — Paul Robeson Copy Share Image
“Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was the source of power of the 1960's freedom movement. God was.” — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
