Civil rights Quote by John Lewis

There's a pattern of the pathway opening in a certain way. We stared thinking, there's so many wonderful films about civil rights movements, but…

— Marisa Tomei

Maybe, just maybe, there should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their…

— John Lewis

Civil rights icons, famous journalists, big-time movie producers may all have credits to their name that we can recognize and be grateful for, but…

— Pramila Jayapal

Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote narrative in…

— Anthea Butler

You could not be in the civil rights movement without having an appreciation for everybody's rights. That these rights are not divisible - not…

— Julian Bond

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

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took…

— Pauley Perrette

Most Americans who made it past the fourth grade have a pretty good idea who Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, and Martin Luther King, Jr.,…

— Louis Menand

True the Black woman did the housework, the drudgery; true, she reared the children, often alone, but she did all of that while occupying…

— Toni Morrison

The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally…

— Anonymous

In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement.

— Marisa Tomei

“Now, when this first started the movement didn’t really appeal to black women because we couldn’t relate. So how did they get black women…

— B. Love