Racism was once just racism, a terrible bigotry that people nevertheless learned to live with, if not as a necessary evil then… — Shelby Steele Copy Share Image
In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Maybe, just maybe, there should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
I was involved in the civil rights movement way back in the late '50s and through the '60s and '70s. I was… — George Takei Copy Share Image
I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is… — Jerry Vlasak Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
“As historian Gerald McKnight observes, “King was proposing nothing less than a radical transformation of the Civil Rights Movement into a populist… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
In Cairo, these young men hanging around in the street, we're told these guys are lazy, they're uneducated, they don't care, they… — Bill Ayers Copy Share Image
I think my experience at the University of Chicago, working in the civil rights movement, working in the peace movement, working with… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
The fighting back by indigenous people started in 1900: OK, they've cornered us. Our population is almost gone; they've defeated us. From… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother… — Yaya DaCosta Copy Share Image
Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and… — Hilton Als Copy Share Image
I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights… — Eric Holder Copy Share Image
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was… — Bernice Johnson Reagon Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of… — David Cameron Copy Share Image
“Out & Equal is about work. It's about authenticity. It's also about justice. Essentially it's about love, because when you get right… — Selisse Berry Copy Share Image
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white… — Maggie Gallagher Copy Share Image
I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were… — Jim Brown Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the… — John Hume Copy Share Image
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what… — Henry Hampton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
