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125 Rights Movement quotes by 104 unique authors

For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a… — Walter E. Williams
I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on… — Charlayne Hunter-Gault
When Congress gets through investigating Attorney General Janet Reno, will her agency become known as the Obstruction of Justice Department? The civil rights movement was… — Thomas Sowell
Martin Luther King (Jr.) during the civil rights movement used to exclaim that he looked forward to heaven where he would be "Free at last."… — Billy Graham
When I was trained as a journalist, as a race-relations reporter in Nashville covering the end of the civil-rights movement, we were strictly forbidden to… — Lawrence Wright
I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our history,… — David Boies
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also… — Bayard Rustin
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. — Constance Baker Motley
John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement… — Russell Banks
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. — Jim Costa
Obama has little or nothing to do with the civil-rights movement. His roots are in Kenya, and he is shaped far more by anti-colonialism than… — Dinesh D'Souza
My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well. — Janis Ian
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the… — Archie Shepp
The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation. — Fredric Wertham
The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America. — Ezra Taft Benson
In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white,… — Neal Boortz
Generally, the arguments for same-sex marriage go along these lines: 'I have a civil right.' What the homosexual movement wants to do is to hitch… — Erwin W. Lutzer
When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation to the big… — Mike Huckabee
In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United… — Robert Kennedy
I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam. — Al Franken
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of… — Al Franken
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the… — Kinky Friedman
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. — Henry Louis Gates
I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. — Henry Louis Gates
The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why… — Henry Louis Gates

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