Boys Quote by Al Gore

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

— Ruby Dee

“In American, the history of racism is taught like this: 'There was slavery and then there was Jim Crow and then there was Martin…

— Trevor Noah

“People think that the South is racist, and it was, and some parts still are, but for the most part, we've dealt with our…

— Larry Correia

After Civil Rights, it was very awkward for whites and blacks. We didn't know how to talk to each other.

— Nick Nolte

I never ceased to be surprised when southern whites, at their homes or clubs, told racial jokes and spoke so derogatorily of blacks while…

— Walter Cronkite

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

— Afeni Shakur

My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car…

— Joe R. Lansdale

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

— Wadada Leo Smith

“I remember it was a quiet, heat-hushed evening. Walking with Mrs. McDonald up a dusty, unpaved road toward her modest home, I asked, "Where…

— Derrick Bell

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the…

— Robert Kennedy

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

— Too Short

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the…

— Carol Moseley Braun