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
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
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
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
The argument of those who are being criticized at any time, the civil rights movement forward, the anti-war movement forward, is, it's… — Mark Shields 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
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
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
“As Ellison's black protagonist exclaimed in Invisible Man, "You ache with the need to convince yourself that you do exist in the… — James T. Patterson 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 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
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
“Before the Wright brothers flew, flying was fantasy. Before the civil rights movement, people getting along together and the races being equal… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead… — Luis Gutierrez 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“It was said by Abraham Lincoln that Ms. Stowe's novel, UNCLE TOM'S CABIN, started the great civil war, the it can be… — Alabama Jane Brown 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
“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
The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America… — John Henrik Clarke 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
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
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
“Judge Carter sat in stony silence, completely unmoved. At the end of the trial, he pronounced King guilty of conspiracy to violate… — Danielle L. McGuire 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 the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the fulfillment of Dr. [Martin Luther] King's dream, but it was a major down payment.” quote by Andrew Aydin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/689/andrew-aydin-21143_barack_we-chose-to-frame-march-around-the-inaug_184143.jpg)
![“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)
