Candidates Quote by Carol Moseley Braun

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

— Derrick Bell

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were…

— Jonathan Lethem

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

— Stokely Carmichael

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the…

— Carol Moseley Braun

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

— Yolanda King

I've done a lot of research about the Civil Rights movement, and I'm fascinated with how difficult it would have been for a black…

— Joshua Henry

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

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

— Henry Louis Gates

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress,…

— Bill Cosby

I deeply understand the history of civil rights and the horrendous impact that relentless and systemic discrimination and the denial of voting rights has…

— Jeff Sessions

The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a…

— Thomas Sowell

I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded…

— Tayari Jones