One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible. — Charles M. Blow Copy Share Image
I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in… — Hanna Rosin Copy Share Image
By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite… — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil rights movement, I was… — Bill Drayton 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
For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To… — Stephen Kinzer 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
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 Copy Share Image
We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't… — Nate Parker 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
At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban… — Arlo Guthrie Copy Share Image
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the… — Gary Bauer 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
You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age… — Terri Sewell Copy Share Image
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority,… — Ian Mckellen 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
Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel… — Alice Walker 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 wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also… — Dan Wakefield Copy Share Image
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother… — Yaya DaCosta Copy Share Image
