"The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as……" — Bernice Johnson Reagon
"The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else."
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Bernice Johnson Reagon
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33 Quotes by Bernice Johnson Reagon
Bernice Johnson Reagon has 33 quotes on this site.
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If we dwell in a community that is comfortable, then it's probably not broad enough a coalition.
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If, in moving through your life, you find yourself lost, go back to the last place where you knew who…
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I organized Sweet Honey In The Rock in 1973. The music was sanity and balance.
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At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music…
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And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of…
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I just don't think one person has that much to contribute to any subject
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If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I…
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I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I…
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But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting…
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Well, the first time I ran into the term religion, people were asking whether you had any. You know, some…
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The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American…
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I went to a church where you could not sing out loud in the service until you had been saved
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
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Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you…
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked…
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government…
— John Quincy Adams
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an…
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to…
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Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
— Joe Biden
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During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
— Joe Biden
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
— Tony Blair
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