Civil rights Quote by Constance Baker Motley

“As historian Gerald McKnight observes, “King was proposing nothing less than a radical transformation of the Civil Rights Movement into a populist crusade calling…

— Michelle Alexander

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else,…

— Peter Riegert

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights…

— James T. Walsh

Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader and an American hero.

— Harry Enten

The white press itself created civil right leaders.

— Malcolm X

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

— Cory Booker

While nothing is perfect or complete in the battle for civil rights, the efforts of Dr. King and those like him have in fact,…

— Skai Jackson

The only politician anybody ever believed was Kennedy, anyway. Kennedy, Martin Luther King - civil rights always turns out in bloody war. Where's his…

— Shane MacGowan

1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to get people to respond, because of…

— John Lewis

Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement…

— Angela Davis

The whole reason for the success of Dr. King's civil-rights movement was that it was not a movement for itself. The civil-rights movement understood…

— Christopher Hitchens

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.…

— Michael Eric Dyson