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Scientists are supposed to study animals in a totally objective fashion, similar to the way we inspect a rock or measure the circumference of a… — Frans de Waal
Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are… — Jehane Noujaim
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary… — Yaya DaCosta
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He… — Michael Eric Dyson
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement.… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights movement gave black America a burst of… — John Henrik Clarke
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. — Henry Rollins
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 off… — Alice Walker
I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a… — Kenneth Chenault
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a… — Alice Walker
By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism… — Bill Cosby
For many years as a foreign correspondent, I not only worked alongside human rights advocates, but considered myself one of them. To defend the rights… — Stephen Kinzer
At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement… — Arlo Guthrie
I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive. — Cory Booker
I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the… — Eric Holder
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our… — Ian Mckellen
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible. — Charles M. Blow
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement. — Kamala Harris
When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18,… — John Lewis
The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil… — Jim Brown
Martin didn't start the Civil Rights Movement, he was chosen to head it. You didn't start the movement, but in your actions today you can… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do… — Henry Hampton
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That… — Bob Edwards
When a family is involved in a human rights movement, as in the Mexican- American family, there is little room for a woman's liberation movement… — Enriqueta Longauex-Vasquez

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