African american Quote by Jeff Sessions

These events are swirling around them. In the white community, people felt like they had no control over their neighborhoods, their destiny. In the…

— Sara Paretsky

You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown,…

— Geoffrey Canada

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

The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and…

— Danny K. Davis

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to…

— Anonymous

The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions,…

— Barbara Ehrenreich

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the…

— Carol Moseley Braun

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

The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a…

— Thomas Sowell

What had begun as a movement to free all black people from racist oppression became a movement with its primary goal the establishment of…

— Bell Hooks

“For realists, the true story of the Civil War illuminates the problem of ostensibly sober-minded compromise with powerful, and intractable, evil. For radicals, the…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Martin Luther King really was a safety valve for white people. Any time it appeared that the black community was on the verge of…

— Ernie Chambers