Civil rights Quote by Karine Jean-Pierre

People often ask me how I stay hopeful - and how they can stay hopeful, too. Here's my answer: Do something. Do anything! Truly,…

— Karine Jean-Pierre

I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away…

— Herbie Hancock

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights…

— Bill Ayers

“A new civil rights movement cannot be organized around the relics of the earlier system of control if it is to address meaningfully the…

— Michelle Alexander

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18,…

— Radhanath Swami

When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation to the…

— Mike Huckabee

LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME to find…

— Shaun King

You can't separate the phenomenal birth of unionism in the United States of America from the Pullman porters. This same small group of men,…

— Andre Braugher

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

— Henry Louis Gates

As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good will could…

— Jon Meacham

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates