Civil rights Quote by Barack Obama

The national conversation around white entitlement, around institutionalized racism, the Black Lives Matter movement, I think, came about in large part because of the…

— Cathy O'Neil

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or…

— Carol Moseley Braun

“The civil rights generation is exiting the American stage—not in a haze of nostalgia but in a cloud of gloom, troubled by the persistence…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own…

— Mary Frances Berry

As a white person I can educate myself to see how we can try to bring positive change. I learned how John Lewis put…

— Nikola Vucevic

We look at the African-American community, for a long time those of us who be considered strong - black men - for whatever reason,…

— Ryan Coogler

My activism did not spring from being black...The racial injustice that was present in this country during my youth was a challenge to my…

— Bayard Rustin

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the…

— Jeff Sessions

Earlier in my college career, there was no doubt in my mind that as a member of the Black community I was somehow obligated…

— Michelle Obama

We all stand on the shoulders of our ancestors. We're in a relay race, relying on the financial and human capital of our parents…

— Nicholas Kristof

We reached a high point in my opinion with the passage of the civil rights legislation and Martin Luther King's success and the crusade…

— Jimmy Carter

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the…

— Sara Paretsky