Rights movement Quotes

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

— Henry Louis Gates

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

— Yolanda King

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Danny Glover

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

— Hamid Dabashi

Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Danny Glover

My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

— Killer Mike

The music of the civil rights movement came from Black artists.

— Jasmine Crockett

We need to fight for a new human rights movement that recognizes and values black life.

— Patrisse Cullors

My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights…

— Amy Sherald

LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME…

— Shaun King

I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both…

— Jamila Woods

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have…

— Charlayne Hunter-Gault

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

— Danny Glover

As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.

— Russell Simmons

Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to…

— Charles B. Rangel

I've always stood for my people, with my people, but some guys just don't have voices like that. I don't like the…

— P. J. Tucker

“The third Great Awakening is variously said to have started between the 1860s and 1890; it continued into the early 1900s and…

— Charles Murray

I've done a lot of research about the Civil Rights movement, and I'm fascinated with how difficult it would have been for…

— Joshua Henry

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

The gay rights movement is not a party. It is not a lifestyle. It is not a hair style. It is not…

— Urvashi Vaid

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

Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in…

— Bill Ayers

There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black…

— Betty Friedan

“Black-Jewish Alliance, What Went Wrong?, Murray Friedman explains how the Civil Rights Movement was Jewish. First of all, it was based on…

— E. Michael Jones

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

The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political…

— Dean Baker

Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do…

— Erwin W. Lutzer

Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and…

— Barack Obama

How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has…

— Glenn Beck

There has to be spiritual transformation among the masses, who have to be willing to recognize that their oppression is not a…

— Noam Chomsky

“They listened to a series of speeches by civil rights luminaries, capped off by a rousing, crowd-pleasing address by Martin Luther King.…

— Stephen M. Ward

“In Hollywood films and television documentaries, the battle lines are clearly drawn. Traditional public schools are bad; their supporters are apologists for…

— Diane Ravitch

“A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address…

— Michelle Alexander

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

— Al Franken

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

— Henry Rollins

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Too Short

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

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

— John Lewis