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This generation is different. They are not as interested in chasing money or material possessions. I believe that this generation is more… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women… — Anthea Butler Copy Share Image
I was from my little perch in a prep school I saw the civil rights movement and it was defining the moral… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
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“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
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
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
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
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
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There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
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Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for… — Bonnie Raitt 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
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Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously… — Michael Eric Dyson 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
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“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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do… — Charles M. Blow 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
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
Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
“In simplicity is such guiding truth. I turn again to the spirituals. “This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine”… — Elizabeth Alexander Copy Share Image
Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
“If you’re not angry, you’re either a stone, or you’re too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You must not… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It really did take Billy Lucas's suicide to wake me up to, kind of, the damage of the success of the LGBT… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
The children of Birmingham did not really die in the State of Alabama, however, because Alabama is a state of mind, and… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and… — Michel Martin Copy Share Image
![“As Ellison's black protagonist exclaimed in Invisible Man, "You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the real world, that you're part of all the sound and anguish, and you strike out with your fists, you curse and you swear to make them [whites] recognize you."30 This did…” quote by James T. Patterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1db/james-t-patterson-3417_black-power_as-ellison-s-black-protagonist-exclaimed_617730.jpg)
![“There are things that make me excited about what I'm doing: Trouble the Water [the 2008 documentary Glover executive produced] on New Orleans, or something like Soundtrack for a Revolution, about the power of the music of the civil rights movement [which he executive produced in 2009]. Or Bamako…” quote by Danny Glover](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/755/danny-glover-7902_cinema_there-are-things-that-make-me-excited-ab_273405.jpg)
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