American society Quote by Julian Bond

An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community…

— Stokely Carmichael

I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now, this offers…

— Ella Baker

We like to think of the '60s as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X and a little bit of friction - no, there…

— Justin Simien

“History reveals that the seeds of the new system of control were planted well before the end of the Civil Rights Movement. A new…

— Michelle Alexander

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

The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.

— Danny Glover

“To blacks, it was abundantly clear what groups like the NAACP and CORE wanted; the NOI, by contrast and largely by design, had no…

— Manning Marable

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

America certainly has made extraordinary progress. The collective unconscious of the nation has certainly shifted as a result of the civil rights movement and…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Every person that steps up and commits to social change helps solidify the black movement cause. It is not easy for those who fill…

— Assata Shakur

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

The Organization of Afro-American Unity was an organization that was a secular group. It largely consisted of people that we would later call several…

— Manning Marable