Civil rights Quote by Ron Dellums

The elites hate to acknowledge it, but when large numbers of ordinary people are moved to action, it changes the narrow political world where…

— Dean Baker

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 world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is…

— Rory Kennedy

I think my experience at the University of Chicago, working in the civil rights movement, working in the peace movement, working with community organizations,…

— Bernie Sanders

[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement.

— Nat Hentoff

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

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

What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its…

— Neale Donald Walsch

There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.

— Andrew Young

I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how…

— Eric Holder

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

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

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