Civil rights movement Quotes · Page 5

In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

— David Duke

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced…

— Ahmet Ertegun

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

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

— Joe Biden

Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere.

— Bill Ayers

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

— Myrlie Evers-Williams

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

— Fredric Wertham

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

— John F. Kennedy

“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

It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights…

— Archie Shepp

Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She…

— Jim Costa

We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the…

— George Takei

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite…

— Bill Cosby

Maybe it's because my uncle and my parents were always very involved with the civil rights movement, so I just grew up…

— Audra McDonald

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right…

— Otis Moss III

Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was…

— Shonda Rhimes

“The role of the press in the civil rights movement also points to our larger failure as a nation to validate and…

— Wesley Lowery

The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this…

— Dolores Huerta

When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was…

— John Lewis

For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and…

— Coretta Scott King

...Negroes must concern themselves with every single means of struggle: legal, illegal, passive, active, violent and non- violent… They must harass, debate,…

— Lorraine Hansberry

“Feeling that our demands were moderate, I had assumed that they would be granted with little question; I had believed that the…

— Martin Luther King Jr

“And out in the rural, when Mrs. Laura McGhee--who if she thought it necessary, sat on the porch with her Winchester rifle--permitted…

— Charles E. Cobb Jr

“Every February, my classmates and I were herded into assemblies for a ritual review of the Civil Rights Movement. Our teachers urged…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

You've got the whole civil rights movements emanating from the south, you've got the music that came out of the south that…

— Debra Winger

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

— Stokely Carmichael

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

— Glenn Beck

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

— Bell Hooks

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

— David Price

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Amber Hollibaugh

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

— Al Franken

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

— Andrew Aydin

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

— Cory Booker

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

— Henry Rollins

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Marisa Tomei

“But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.”

— Anne Moody

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

— Paul Beatty