Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more… — Dinesh D'Souza 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
When I speak to students about the Civil Rights Movement, I say that it is impossible to stop a determined movement that… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is, indeed, one of the basic moral blindspots of American conservatism that its intellectual and leadership energy have never been focused… — Martin Kilson Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I've never been afraid to step out and to reach out and to move out in order to make things happen. — Victoria Gray Adams Copy Share Image
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement,… — Steven Van Zandt Copy Share Image
The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's… — Mark Shields Copy Share Image
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote… — Anthea Butler 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
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
That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
“I loved going to the library. It was the first time I ever saw Black newspapers and magazines like JET, Ebony, the… — John Robert Lewis Copy Share Image
I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think… — Barack Obama 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
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were… — Lawrence Wright Copy Share Image
There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.” — Allan Dare Pearce Copy Share Image
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson 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
Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we… — Harry Belafonte Copy Share Image
The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
