Black people Quote by Roxie Roker

And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens…

— Taylor Branch

When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put…

— Al Sharpton

The demands of the Civil Rights era weren't limited to voting rights - they strove for an end to segregation in all aspects of…

— Alicia Garza

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot…

— Anonymous

In fifth grade, we did 10 minutes on slavery and 40 minutes on Abraham Lincoln, and in 10th grade you might do 10 minutes…

— Colson Whitehead

In America, racism exists but racists are all gone. Racists belong to the past. Racists are the thin-lipped mean white people in the movies…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Many thought that the abolition of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, and the legislative progress of the Civil Rights Era, among other watershed…

— Opal Tometi

“During extraordinary historical moments—both world wars, the aftermath of the Great Depression, or the peak of the civil rights era—the usual categories dividing “activists”…

— Naomi Klein

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

— Wesley Morris

On March 7, 1965, some 600 civil rights activists marched in Selma, Alabama, demanding an end to racial discrimination. The demonstration was led by…

— Martin Luther King III

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory…

— Morgan Freeman

That was exciting to be able to comment on civil rights. I mean, the civil rights movement that young people don't know about today,…

— Jules Feiffer