Rights movement Quotes · Page 2

I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.

— John Lewis

If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses…

— Kinky Friedman

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

— Julian Bond

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the…

— James T. Walsh

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

— Jack Schlossberg

I've been a very effective leader in the gay rights movement, though at times I've been controversial.

— Jean O'Leary

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

— Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in…

— Peter Beinart

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

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

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

— Jim Brown

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

— John Hume

Not since the early days of the civil rights movement has America been given an opportunity as great as the opportunity we…

— Harry Belafonte

As I got to know the people of the Civil Rights Movement, I realized... I am the hopeful black woman who was…

— Common

Jim Jones started out as a civil rights crusader in Indianapolis. As a young preacher in the mid-50s, he used members of…

— Julia Scheeres

“In the case of Tunisia, it was indeed this single act that sparked what had been long-standing active protest movements and moved…

— Noam Chomsky

Martin didn't start the Civil Rights Movement, he was chosen to head it. You didn't start the movement, but in your actions…

— Eugene Nathaniel Butler

In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement!…

— Holly Near

“A week later fifty-four sit-ins were under way in fifteen cities in nine states in the South.60 It was obvious from the…

— James T. Patterson

The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do…

— Charles M. Blow

I grew up in Illinois in an environment where my parents were very politically active in the civil rights movement.

— Lucy McBath

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

— Kenya Barris

The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.

— Jacqueline Woodson

“The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.”

— Tom Cardamone

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

— Amber Hollibaugh

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

— Nat Hentoff

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

— Cory Booker

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

— Andrew Aydin

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

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

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

— Stokely Carmichael

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

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