Aspects of life Quote by Alicia Garza

I was very much a part of the civil rights era, so, of course, my fantasy was to marry some outstanding black gentleman, a…

— Roxie Roker

And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens…

— Taylor Branch

When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put…

— Al Sharpton

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot…

— Anonymous

In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes…

— Colson Whitehead

There was never a time you could get the majority of people in Alabama or Mississippi, or even southern Delaware, to vote to end…

— Bryan Stevenson

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

— Wesley Morris

“During extraordinary historical moments—both world wars, the aftermath of the Great Depression, or the peak of the civil rights era—the usual categories dividing “activists”…

— Naomi Klein

I was lucky I had a mom who had seen it all. From seeing my grandfather march in the Civil Rights era, she understood…

— Malcolm Brogdon

Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and…

— Randy Sandke

“In a landmark ruling, New York Times v. Sullivan changed the standard for defamation and libel by requiring plaintiffs to prove malice--that is, evidence…

— Bryan Stevenson

“Racism is a complex and interconnected system that adapts to challenges over time. Colorblind ideology was a very effective adaptation to the challenges of…

— Robin DiAngelo

America in the age of Donald Trump is more permissive of explicit racism than it's been at any point since the civil rights era.…

— Jamelle Bouie

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed…

— Opal Tometi

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie