Activism Quote by David Price

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.

— Randall Robinson

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

The civil rights movement is something I've looked into a lot. When I was about 23, I started reading up on it all and…

— Andre Gray

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

— Amber Hollibaugh

Activism is setting a goal of something you would like to be different, and figuring out what would have to change to achieve that…

— Rachel Maddow

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

— Michael Tubbs

I just look back at my time in college and think about how much my community activism and my work in neighborhoods really informed…

— Opal Tometi

I was from my little perch in a prep school I saw the civil rights movement and it was defining the moral dimensions of…

— Bill Ayers

Because my graduate academic training at law school was not one that included most of the intellectual traditions I find useful for understanding the…

— Dean Spade

You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I…

— Terri Sewell

My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color…

— Anna Holmes