Body 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

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

Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They…

— John Lewis

There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.

— Hanna Rosin

The rights of women are to the 21st century what civil rights were to the 20th.

— Tina Brown

The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is…

— Emily Thornberry

I have written 13 books, full of my ideas about a variety of issues - from black women, to hip-hop culture, to the civil…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I hope to be remembered for writing books about social justice that also have enough aesthetic value to endure as works of literature.

— Jonathan Kozol

Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still…

— Marisa Tomei

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

— Marisa Tomei

Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of…

— Gillian Flynn

Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and…

— Mary Virginia Terhune