Adapted Quote by Stokely Carmichael

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

— Kenya Barris

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or…

— Carol Moseley Braun

The music of the civil rights movement came from Black artists.

— Jasmine Crockett

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

— Derrick Bell

It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like…

— Maya Angelou

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

— Yolanda King

For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

— Gary Clark, Jr

Although the civil-rights movement did a lot to change how black life was dramatized on the American stage in the fifties and sixties, white…

— Hilton Als

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 birth of the civil rights movement was intimately bound up in the spread of jazz music throughout the United States. It was, for…

— Steven Johnson

If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

— Henry Louis Gates

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part…

— Hendrik Hertzberg