Civil rights Quote by Misha Green

The Underground Railroad, which was the first integrated civil rights movement, is a part of our history that not a lot of us know…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

Oftentimes, a history book in school will talk about the Underground Railroad as if it's one sentence. But thousands of people decided to run,…

— Jurnee Smollett-Bell

The civil rights movement is understanding your freedom under the Constitution of these United States and if anyone tries to take those freedoms from…

— Ken Hutcherson

I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now, this offers…

— Ella Baker

Harriet Tubman fought American slavery single handed and was a pioneer in that organized effort known as the Underground Railroad.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

To be honest, it was slavery. Nobody should have any romantic ideas about working underground. It's very, very dangerous. You always knew you were…

— Dennis Skinner

Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia and…

— Bill Ayers

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them…

— Claire McCaskill

When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to…

— Gloria Allred

In 'Underground,' you have to write for everyone, even the bad guys. People need to laugh and love and have voices and do bad…

— Misha Green

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and…

— John Hume

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