Changed Quote by Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

— Too Short

I was involved in the civil rights movement way back in the late '50s and through the '60s and '70s. I was doing a…

— George Takei

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18,…

— Radhanath Swami

Not a lot of people would think that I spent most of my early years totally rebelling against anything I could, getting suspended from…

— Dan Stevens

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

— Amber Hollibaugh

Persistence. Change doesn't happen overnight. You have to stay with it. Rosa Parks helped start the Civil Rights movement in earnest in 1955. Then…

— Kabir Sehgal

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

I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country.

— Herm Edwards

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

I would say when I went to Michigan. It started. I got very very involved in civil rights in Ann Harbor right away. Picketing,…

— Bill Ayers

The civil rights movement is something I've looked into a lot. When I was about 23, I started reading up on it all and…

— Andre Gray

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