“The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came… — Timothy B. Tyson Copy Share Image
By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the… — George Takei Copy Share Image
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights… — Archie Shepp Copy Share Image
Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She… — Jim Costa Copy Share Image
“The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It… — Junius Williams 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
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
In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement!… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
“Far too many Americans are illiterate in power — what it is, how it operates and why some people have it. As… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
Martin didn't start the Civil Rights Movement, he was chosen to head it. You didn't start the movement, but in your actions… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
As Dr. King said, an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. It is that creed of the civil rights movement… — Steven Horsford Copy Share Image
“In the case of Tunisia, it was indeed this single act that sparked what had been long-standing active protest movements and moved… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you grew up white before the civil rights movement anywhere in the South, all grown-ups lied. They'd tell you stuff like,… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back… — David Boies Copy Share Image
I go back to the parallels with 1963, 1964 when white America really became aware of the brutality of segregation, the cruelty… — Cleve Jones Copy Share Image
I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
“For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture… — Augusta Scattergood Copy Share Image
We don't want to blame the victim. The civil rights movement had a profound effect on the United States and on the… — Jerome Kagan Copy Share Image
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights… — James Earl Jones Copy Share Image
There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their… — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
“Mass incarceration—not attacks on affirmative action or lax civil rights enforcement—is the most damaging manifestation of the backlash against the Civil Rights… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Persistence. Change doesn't happen overnight. You have to stay with it. Rosa Parks helped start the Civil Rights movement in earnest in… — Kabir Sehgal Copy Share Image
We chose to frame "March" around the inauguration of Barack Obama because it was such an important moment in the story of… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
Food is an important lens onto the civil rights movement. One of the central issues of the movement was the right to… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of… — Douglas A. Blackmon Copy Share Image
I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also… — Dan Wakefield Copy Share Image
“It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man… — Myrlie Evers-Williams Copy Share Image
You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible… — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
I earned my spurs in the civil rights movement. All my life, not for political but for religious reasons, moral reasons, that's… — Walter F. Mondale Copy Share Image
“We knew no one man had killed the prophet. Rather, the combined weight of racism and an absence of moral courage had… — Marita Golden Copy Share Image
The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Eventually [black men] are arrested, whether they've committed any serious crime or not, and branded criminals or felons for life. Upon release,… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Alabama's Black Belt region played a central role in both the history of our great state and our country. We cannot lose… — Tommy Tuberville Copy Share Image
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian… — Justin Sane Copy Share Image
“Back then, Black churches were a small piece of peace. Church was a world where, even with its imperfections, the offer of… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
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