Civil rights Quote by Maggie Gallagher

A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression.

— Kate Millett

The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a…

— Thomas Sowell

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 most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate…

— Henry Louis Gates

I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there…

— Barack Obama

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

And thus goes segregation which is the most far-reaching development in the history of the Negro since the enslavement of the race.

— Carter G. Woodson

“What started as a struggle for equal rights and a more color-blind society has turned into a major industry--the victim industry. Like the rest…

— Tammy Bruce

When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Slavery wasn’t a crisis for British and American elites until abolitionism turned it into one. Racial discrimination wasn’t a crisis until the civil rights…

— Naomi Klein

We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for…

— George Takei

Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to…

— Octavia Spencer