Black Quote by Justin Simien

In college I studied '60s and '70s radicalism, student activism, forms of political violence, groups like the Weathermen, the Black Panthers, the Symbionese Liberation…

— Marisha Pessl

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was…

— Jonathan Kozol

[Malcolm X] shared with Marcus Garvey a commitment to building strong black institutions. He shared with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a commitment to…

— Manning Marable

I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were…

— Todd Haynes

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

— Tom Ford

Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm…

— Opal Tometi

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

— Molly Ivins

My father joined the NAACP when he was 12, in the '50s. He was part of the organizing efforts that led to some of…

— Boots Riley

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

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

Today is Martin Luther King Day , and He didn't have a dream that black people would divide up into teamlightskinned and teamdarkskinned.

— Sonya Parker

If they had not murdered Malcolm X, there probably never would have been a Black Panther Party.

— Bobby Seale