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
I would want to go back to the civil rights movement and see how that was. With the information and knowledge I… — Storm Reid Copy Share Image
From our nation's founding to the Civil Rights movement, Virginians have always stood up to fight for their most foundational right -… — Abigail Spanberger Copy Share Image
“Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
Felons are typically stripped of the very rights supposedly won in the civil rights movement, including the right to vote, the right… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
I don't want Breonna Taylor to become the Claudette Colvin of the Black Lives Matter era. I don't want Ahmaud Arbery to… — Jason Johnson Copy Share Image
The seminal right of the modern civil rights movement was the right to vote. My father fought so diligently for it. Certainly… — Martin Luther King III 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
Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
“A week later fifty-four sit-ins were under way in fifteen cities in nine states in the South.60 It was obvious from the… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
When I began writing poems, it was in the late 60s and early 70s when the literary and cultural atmosphere was very… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Rep. Lewis was never satisfied with doing enough. And that's why, on top of everything he suffered and gave to the civil… — Karine Jean-Pierre Copy Share Image
I sound like a church nut, but look at the role of the churches in the civil rights movement in the States.… — Duncan Green Copy Share Image
I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights… — Tom Morello Copy Share Image
One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like… — Stanley Nelson Jr Copy Share Image
Many Catholic parishes were segregated prior to the Civil Rights movement, and the first large contingent of African-American Catholic priests would enter… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights… — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
“On Thursday morning, May 2, 1963, nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks woke up with freedom on her mind. But, before she could be… — Cynthia Levinson Copy Share Image
Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
You know what Americans are really sensitive to? Issues of fairness. I think this is a modern phenomenon, born of the civil… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's… — Bob Edwards Copy Share Image
Today's secular libertarians, who want to remove biblical religion from public life, have trouble making sense of the civil rights movement because… — Bruce L. Shelley Copy Share Image
“Mrs. (Fanie Lou) Hamer, like her mother, also kept weapons nearby in case she needed them: 'I keep a shotgun in every… — Charles E. Cobb Jr Copy Share Image
Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all… — James L. Farmer, Jr Copy Share Image
The very rights that we supposedly won for African Americans in the civil rights movement no longer exist for those labeled felons.… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of… — Jurnee Smollett-Bell Copy Share Image
“But what's braver?' Emmanuel said. 'Naming the bigots and possibly being killed for it? Or living in silence in order to protect… — Janelle Gray Copy Share Image
I know I'm going back some decades, but I'll never forget the discomfort of being one of the few Black kids in… — Jonathan Capehart Copy Share Image
“I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know… — Endesha Ida Mae Holland Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the… — John Hume Copy Share Image
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
