I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of… — Carol Moseley Braun 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
Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Forgiveness became a big part of the civil rights movement, juxtaposed against the violence of protesters and law enforcement. King described forgiveness… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“Justice” [Sept. 15]: It appears that the outcome of the civil rights movement has been to replace “Blacks not welcome” with “This… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think my experience at the University of Chicago, working in the civil rights movement, working in the peace movement, working with… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined… — Walter Reuther Copy Share Image
Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation,… — Rafael Cruz Copy Share Image
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate,… — Marian Anderson Copy Share Image
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man… — Myrlie Evers-Williams Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also… — Dan Wakefield Copy Share Image
Maybe, just maybe, there should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Alabama's Black Belt region played a central role in both the history of our great state and our country. We cannot lose… — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
I was involved in the civil rights movement way back in the late '50s and through the '60s and '70s. I was… — George Takei Copy Share Image
Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
“Barack Obama so spooked the bigoted whites of this country that we are now faced with a racist explicitness that we haven’t… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
What has been adjudicated and established in the wake of Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement is the ability of the press… — Lowell Bergman Copy Share Image
My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer.… — John Conyers Copy Share Image
I've been there for so many crossroads in American history. My whole political life spans the birth of the environmental movement, the… — Barbara Boxer 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
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
It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I… — James Meredith Copy Share Image
Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
“She wore heavy sandals, with socks. No kid in the entire state of Mississippi wore black socks in the summer. Shoot, if… — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
There are many photos of Catholic priests and nuns marching in the Civil Rights movement, most notably at the March on Selma,… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
“Simply put: because nonviolence worked so well as a tactic for effecting change and was demonstrably improving their lives, some black people… — Charles E. Cobb Copy Share Image
another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Historically, narratives of forgiveness were part of both the anti-slavery movement and the civil rights movement in America. 'Uncle Tom's Cabin,' for… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
Karen Russell learned to think from her father, someone Peter Gammons knows well, Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, who used his prominence… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
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