You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights…

In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, I was able to…

— Bill Drayton

I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how…

— Eric Holder

The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil rights movement.…

— Gail Collins

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights…

— Gary Bauer

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb…

— Arlo Guthrie

Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights…

— Jehane Noujaim

We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always…

— Nate Parker

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.

— Ahmet Ertegun

I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as…

— Kenneth Chenault

I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country.…

— Don Lemon

The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Danny Glover

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress,…

— Bill Cosby

Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the…

— Natasha Trethewey