Rights movement Quotes · Page 3

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

— David Price

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

— Fredric Wertham

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

— Maya Wiley

Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

— Joe Biden

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

— Bill Ayers

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

— Andrew Young

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence…

— Bayard Rustin

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.

— John F. Kennedy

Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be…

— Billy Graham

I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional…

— Angela Davis

Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and…

— Hilton Als

“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

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of…

— David Cameron

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white…

— Maggie Gallagher

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

I think my experience at the University of Chicago, working in the civil rights movement, working in the peace movement, working with…

— Bernie Sanders

One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and…

— Eric Thomas

Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a…

— Noam Chomsky

How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has…

— Glenn Beck

Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and…

— Barack Obama

Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights…

— David Maraniss

In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they…

— Bill Ayers

“As historian Gerald McKnight observes, “King was proposing nothing less than a radical transformation of the Civil Rights Movement into a populist…

— Michelle Alexander

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

— Kenya Barris

“The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.”

— Tom Cardamone

The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.

— Jacqueline Woodson

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

— Andrew Aydin

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

— Cory Booker

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

— Nat Hentoff

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

— Amber Hollibaugh

In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.

— Nat Hentoff

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

— Kamala Harris

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

— Marisa Tomei

When a family is involved in a human rights movement, as in the Mexican- American family, there is little room for a…

— Enriqueta Longauex-Vasquez

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

— John Lewis

I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of…

— Ron Dellums

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses…

— Kinky Friedman

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

— Jack Schlossberg