Agendas Quote by Alveda King

My grandfather James Peck was a civil rights activist.

— Justin Peck

I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three…

— Ira Sachs

My daddy, Rev. A. D. King, my granddaddy, Martin Luther King, Senior - we are a family of faith, hope and love.

— Alveda King

My grandfather was coloured, my father was Negro, and I am Black.

— Henry Louis Gates

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a…

— Yaya DaCosta

My father joined the NAACP when he was 12, in the '50s. He was part of the organizing efforts that led to some of…

— Boots Riley

My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

— Killer Mike

Both my parents' brothers are into active politics and so was my grandfather.

— Mimi Chakraborty

You know what family values means, that's hating the same people your grandfather hated.

— Robert Anton Wilson

I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

— Ralph Abernathy

For my grandfather, there was no distinction. There was no tension between his support for civil rights for black people and his animus toward…

— Megan Phelps-Roper

If the NAACP were to impose a control of something towards all, then I would staunchly oppose it.

— Noam Chomsky