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“The birth of the civil rights movement was intimately bound up in the spread of jazz music throughout the United States. It was, for…

— Steven Johnson

The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of…

— John Lewis

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the…

— Jeff Sessions

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the…

— Robert Kennedy

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

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

— Yolanda King

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and,…

— Norman Granz

It's important for youth, black youths particularly, to be able to fill in the blanks of themselves so they can know completely who they…

— Forest Whitaker

The Underground Railroad was the first integrated civil rights movement. And it's a great example of when we work together, what we can go…

— Misha Green

“Civil rights is just one battlefield in the real war of the left, which is the war against America itself. The big guns of…

— David Horowitz

Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia and…

— Bill Ayers

You can't separate the phenomenal birth of unionism in the United States of America from the Pullman porters. This same small group of men,…

— Andre Braugher