Rights movement Quotes · Page 2

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

— Wadada Leo Smith

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

— Jim Costa

A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement,…

— Steven Van Zandt

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

— Danny Glover

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

— Afeni Shakur

John Lewis' vital role in the civil rights movement will never be forgotten, and his legacy will forever be acknowledged by our…

— Angela Stanton-King

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

The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

— Samuel Bowers

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil…

— Angela Davis

I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all…

— Coretta Scott King

The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were…

— Jim Brown

That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not…

— Pam Grier

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the…

— John Hume

If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now - as the great heroes of the Civil Rights…

— Cleve Jones

It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down…

— David Maraniss

To me and to a number of other activists from the U.S., we believe that the human rights movement has to evolve…

— Opal Tometi

The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing…

— Marian Wright Edelman

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good…

— Jon Meacham

For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no…

— Walter E. Williams

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

another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country’s founding to the glory of the…

— Barack Obama

I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is…

— Jerry Vlasak

Maybe, just maybe, there should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to…

— John Lewis

I was involved in the civil rights movement way back in the late '50s and through the '60s and '70s. I was…

— George Takei

Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.

— Mary Jane Patterson

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

— John F. Kennedy

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

— Maya Wiley

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

— Fredric Wertham

There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence…

— Bayard Rustin

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

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

— Bill Ayers

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

— Joe Biden

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

— David Price

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

— Bell Hooks

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

— Stokely Carmichael

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

— Marisa Tomei

My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement.

— Kamala Harris

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

— Nat Hentoff

When a family is involved in a human rights movement, as in the Mexican- American family, there is little room for a…

— Enriqueta Longauex-Vasquez

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

— Cory Booker