Civil rights movement Quotes · Page 4

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have…

— Charlayne Hunter-Gault

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

— Danny Glover

“The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world…

— Martin Luther King Jr

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

— David Price

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in…

— Bell Hooks

“Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was the source of power of the 1960's freedom movement. God was.”

— Glenn Beck

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

— Stokely Carmichael

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

— John F. Kennedy

When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation…

— Mike Huckabee

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

— Eric Holder

At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the…

— David Talbot

My dad was a member of the Greatest Generation that achieved victory in World War II. This was the generation that saved…

— John F. Kerry

My earliest memories are when my father was the attorney general at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. We would go…

— Kerry Kennedy

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother…

— Yaya DaCosta

“Black-Jewish Alliance, What Went Wrong?, Murray Friedman explains how the Civil Rights Movement was Jewish. First of all, it was based on…

— E. Michael Jones

There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black…

— Betty Friedan

Karen Russell learned to think from her father, someone Peter Gammons knows well, Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, who used his prominence…

— Donald Trump

What is the appeal of Trump, really? It's nostalgic: "Make America great again." Like European nationalists, he has a vision of a…

— Anne Applebaum

“The SNCC base of operation, at the corner of Jackson and High Streets, was in the heart of the black community in…

— Junius Williams

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

— Eric Thomas

The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

If you look at the history of the Ford Foundation and Rockefeller, in Latin America, in Indonesia, where almost a million people,…

— Arundhati Roy

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

— Fredric Wertham

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

— Joe Biden

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

— Myrlie Evers-Williams

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

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

— Tom Cardamone

“God bless mood equalizers. and all moods are created equal. i am the fucking civil rights movement of moods”

— John Green

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

— Jacqueline Woodson

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

— Kenya Barris

People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.

— Paul Beatty

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

— Marisa Tomei

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

— Nat Hentoff

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead…

— Luis Gutierrez

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

— Andrew Aydin

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

— Amber Hollibaugh

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

— Nat Hentoff