Rights movement Quotes · Page 2

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

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of…

— Ron Dellums

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

— John Lewis

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

— Lucy McBath

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

— Julian Bond

Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more…

— Dinesh D'Souza

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

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

The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

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

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and…

— Russell Banks

Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War…

— Natasha Trethewey

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

— John Hume

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

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

— Harry Belafonte

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

— Holly Near

“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

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

— Charles M. Blow

“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 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

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

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

— Kenya Barris

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

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

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

— David Price

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

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

— John F. Kennedy