The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color. — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of… — Norman Jewison Copy Share Image
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights. — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
When LBJ signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the modern Southern GOP was born. — Steve Kornacki Copy Share Image
Protests, such as those in favor of labor rights, women's suffrage, civil rights and gay rights, helped to make America as great… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
You are losing because blacks are getting their civil rights in the cities. — David Remnick 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
I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America… — Caroline Kennedy Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement is understanding your freedom under the Constitution of these United States and if anyone tries to take those… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
You got to understand, Arthur Alexander was there with us, and some of his crew. It was in the '50s in Alabama.… — Donnie Fritts Copy Share Image
“The great civil rights leader Howard Thurman once said, “Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive. Because… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
We want to make certain that every American who stood in silent tribute to Rosa Parks hopes that the Sepreme Court Judge… — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Surely a tired woman on her way to work at six in the morning on a subway deserves the right to get… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Remember the vast majority of the Democrats as well as all the Republicans in the House of Representatives in Louisiana voted for… — David Duke Copy Share Image
This is a crucial time in the fight for corporate civil rights. Just look at the hateful signs at Occupy Wallstreet: 'Corporations… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
I would not have suffered my name to have been used by my friends on anywise as President of the United States,… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much… — Herbie Hancock Copy Share Image
The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history,… — Herman Cain Copy Share Image
Young people have this almost romantic attachment to civil rights, liberties, emancipating people from oppression, etc. The idea that such oppression exists… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Except in the areas of civil rights and medical marijuana, the legacy of the sixties counterculture has been largely superficial. Still, though… — Tom Robbins 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
“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
“Sometimes in history the name of God has been invoked on behalf of actions and movements that have ennobled the human soul… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
“Inclusion on race has been a very different journey, and I worry that for all the progress we have made, we are… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
“The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Advancing the notion that there can be many "feminisms" has served the conservative and liberal political interests of women seeking status and… — bell hooks 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
I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
If surveillance infiltrates our homes and personal relationships, that is a gross breach of our human and civil rights. — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage. — Janine di Giovanni Copy Share Image
Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights. — Jack Kingston Copy Share Image
The U.S. Constitution has absorbed the end of slavery, the Civil War, Civil Rights and Watergate. — Gavin Esler Copy Share Image
Our government just won't enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored. — Major Owens Copy Share Image
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today. — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
My mother supported me from the beginning and never said you should be an activist or civil rights leader or minister. — Yolanda King Copy Share Image
I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.' — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
