Bills Quote by Stokely Carmichael

I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.

— Stokely Carmichael

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted.…

— Henry Louis Gates

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the…

— Robert Kennedy

“The core argument of this book is that African Americans were unconstitutionally denied the means and the right to integration in middle-class neighborhoods, and…

— Richard Rothstein

“Power is never given, it's taken." It is an open secret that there exists a conflict between a new generation of young black leadership…

— Wesley Lowery

Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were…

— Danny Glover

Black people are victims of an enormous amount of violence. None of those things can take place without the complicity of the people who…

— Toni Morrison

In terms of addressing crime issues in the black community, the dominant political class has historically refused to endorse the full slate of reforms…

— James Forman, Jr

“Blacks must learn that true freedom from poverty is available only through hard work and perseverance, not through affirmative action programs, protesting, or blind…

— Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson

There was always resistance and there was always a counter-narrative, but we were told all through the early twentieth century that black people in…

— Bill Ayers

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