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Civil Rights Quotes by 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.
- At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by…
- I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation…
- I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background…
- When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
More Civil Rights Quotes
- Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an… — Glenn Beck
- During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement. — Joe Biden
- A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a… — W. E. B. Du Bois
- To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater. — Bono
- The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit… — William J. Brennan
- The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. — Edmund Burke
- The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history,… — Herman Cain
- Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of… — David Cameron
- One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi… — Jack Canfield
- I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people. — Stokely Carmichael
- There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. — Stokely Carmichael
- So that the failures to pass a civil rights bill isn't because of Black Power, isn't because of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating… — Stokely Carmichael