The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
“I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.” — Anne Moody Copy Share Image
Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin,... — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement. — Michael Tubbs 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
When I think about our babies today and them not being safe in school, I think that should be the next civil… — Ruby Bridges Copy Share Image
“Many black and poor people, moreover, had become politicized by the civil rights movement and had begun to develop higher expectations from… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi… — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
There's a pattern of the pathway opening in a certain way. We stared thinking, there's so many wonderful films about civil rights… — Marisa Tomei Copy Share Image
“The evolution of national unity and equal rights is all about what America represents as a nation today: a manifestation of the… — Patrick Mendis Copy Share Image
When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in… — Don Lemon Copy Share Image
I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw… — Kenneth Chenault Copy Share Image
“Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself, and that is what has happened to the American… — Martin Luther King Jr Copy Share Image
“Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political… — Dean Baker 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
Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do… — Erwin W. Lutzer Copy Share Image
Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“This book argues that mass incarceration is, metaphorically, the New Jim Crow and that all those who care about social justice should… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
“Most people remember COINTELPRO from the days of the Black Panthers, Yippies, and other revolutionary groups who threatened our government during the… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“When one person got involved, it took everybody else along. I went to jail first, but my entire family soon joined the… — Faith S. Holsaert 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
“Sometimes in history the name of God has been invoked on behalf of actions and movements that have ennobled the human soul… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
“The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right? — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image