Rights movement Quotes · Page 2

One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible.

— Charles M. Blow

Get involved in your neighborhood. That's how I got really, really committed to the immigrant rights movement.

— Opal Tometi

It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out…

— Adam Cohen

President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

— Danny Glover

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

— Michael Tubbs

Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?

— Russell Simmons

The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

— Ezra Taft Benson

The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!"

— Michael R. Burch

When I think about our babies today and them not being safe in school, I think that should be the next civil…

— Ruby Bridges

“Many black and poor people, moreover, had become politicized by the civil rights movement and had begun to develop higher expectations from…

— James T. Patterson

One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi…

— Jack Canfield

When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those…

— Michael Moore

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

I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw…

— Kenneth Chenault

The advent of the civil rights movement during the 50s and 60s made it very plain crystal clear to me that we…

— John Lewis

The South actually has a very strong tradition of activism. The civil rights movement came from down here! It was black activists…

— John Darnielle

One of the things I know about my family, my generation, and my ethic background is that we put in work and…

— Eric Thomas

I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think…

— Barack Obama

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of…

— Henry Louis Gates

When I speak to students about the Civil Rights Movement, I say that it is impossible to stop a determined movement that…

— John Lewis

The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues…

— Danny Glover

The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this…

— Dolores Huerta

For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and…

— Coretta Scott King

Veganism is about nonviolence. It is about not engaging in harm to other sentient beings; to oneself; and to the environment upon…

— Anonymous

I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'

— Ruby Dee

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the…

— Henry Louis Gates

The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters.

— Constance Baker Motley

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

— Henry Louis Gates

The civil rights movement is something I've looked into a lot. When I was about 23, I started reading up on it…

— Andre Gray

“Justice” [Sept. 15]: It appears that the outcome of the civil rights movement has been to replace “Blacks not welcome” with “This…

— Anonymous

The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.

— Tony Evans

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

— Joe Biden

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents…

— Janis Ian

Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we…

— George Clooney

Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it…

— Aisha Hinds

The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of…

— Norman Jewison

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