Civil rights Quote by Justin Peck

My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

— Killer Mike

I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three…

— Ira Sachs

In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor!

— David Duke

My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a…

— Yaya DaCosta

My father was at the forefront of the economic justice movement - fighting for and with Black women who were on welfare for dignity…

— Maya Wiley

My grandfather on my paternal side, Richard Frazier, was born in the late 1850s and, therefore, was born into slavery but was a sharecropper…

— Kenneth Frazier

Neither my great-grandfather an NAACP founder, my grandfather Dr. Martin Luther King, Sr. an NAACP leader, my father Rev. A. D. Williams King, nor…

— Alveda King

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

— Michael Tubbs

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

— Maya Wiley

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Too Short

Louis Brandeis beloved uncle, Lewis Dembitz, was an ardent abolitionist. His mother was an abolitionist in Kentucky at a time when Brandeis remembered hearing…

— Jeffrey Rosen

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

— Amber Hollibaugh