Civil rights Quote by Sammy Davis, Jr

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

We chose to frame "March" around the inauguration of Barack Obama because it was such an important moment in the story of the Civil…

— Andrew Aydin

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

— Afeni Shakur

When I was younger, I had these romantic ideas about the Black Panther Party and what it meant to be a part of the…

— Patrisse Cullors

I would want to go back to the civil rights movement and see how that was. With the information and knowledge I have about…

— Storm Reid

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

“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

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

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

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

— Henry Louis Gates