Civil rights movement Quote by Mark Kemp Download Open image ““I loved the land that surrounded me but hated the history that haunted that land.”” — Mark Kemp ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil rights movement History Southern culture The-south
“He’d always loved this land, loved how his family had tamed it. It was as much a part of him as his blood. Being… — Leah Braemel Copy Share Image
“Now it's your land. But it's important, at least to me,that you remember that it's not just your land. There is a history. Now… — Robert Goolrick Copy Share Image
“I have never been out of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don’t think… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“When I felt as though I had reached land, it was like I was on a deserted sandy beach, feeling isolated and afraid to… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“It was as though I'd glimpsed a foreign kingdom through a magic casement. The lost land I longed for.” — Sarah Singleton Copy Share Image
“Possibly a man who hates the land should dwell on shore forever. Alienation and the long voyages at sea will compel him once again… — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image
“That was the trouble. The land is too big out there, and after a while it starts to swallow you up. I reached a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“Going home at night! It wasn't often that I was on the river at night. I never liked it. I never felt in control.… — V.S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“I sought the sea. There was a small comfort in it--in how it never ended, how there were other lands beyond it that I… — Susan Fletcher Copy Share Image
The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream."… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
“was my first indication that the policies of Mamaw’s “party of the working man”—the Democrats—weren’t all they were cracked up to be. Political scientists… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited. — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image