Civil rights Quote by Bill Ayers

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

— Amber Hollibaugh

I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

— Too Short

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

As a social justice lawyer, I started marches against Trump here in Detroit.

— Rashida Tlaib

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

— Herm Edwards

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown…

— Alice Walker

I went to my first civil rights rally when I was 17 years old. I was a little skinny blond kid, scared to death,…

— Pauley Perrette

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

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

You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I…

— Terri Sewell

I think the big turning moment was when I joined the student political action club and started studying nonviolent civil disobedience in response to…

— Cecily McMillan