Civil rights Quote by Samuel Bowers

The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice…

— Marian Wright Edelman

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

— Jackie Kennedy

There was a huge lack of freedom in communist regimes, but at least they had humanity at the center of their thinking.

— Alexis Tsipras

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

— Kenya Barris

The civil rights movement was not a mirage... It was live and in living color.

— Yolanda King

It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

— Tariq Ali

The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Communist regimes were not some unfortunate aberration, some historical deviation from a socialist ideal. They were the ultimate expression, unconstrained by democratic and electoral…

— Margaret Thatcher

It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement.

— Danny Glover

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

— Jack Schlossberg

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else,…

— Peter Riegert