Civil rights Quote by Stuart Hall

I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

It's very lonely being a prominent black intellectual at an institution where you're the only prominent black intellectual. That was the model that was…

— Henry Louis Gates

I used to be a human rights lawyer and acted for many black Londoners who had been victims of discrimination.

— Sadiq Khan

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

— Amber Hollibaugh

I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement.

— Maya Wiley

I went to a segregated school; I was born a Negro, not a black man.

— Michael Eric Dyson

My mother is black, from Grenada, so my blackness was always there, but It wasn't until I started hanging with the upperclassmen black actors…

— Amanda Seales

Eventually, I won the right to attend school, but the prejudice was still there.

— Ryan White

The fact that I was African American was never addressed, and that allowed me to just be a student, like anyone else. I was…

— Misty Copeland

I was black, studying physics and engineering. I was from a small school nobody ever heard of.

— Edwin Moses

Long gone is the time when we opposed the notion that we all looked alike and talked alike. Somehow we have come to exalt…

— Clarence Thomas

Sometimes, I am also identified as a civil rights leader or a human rights activist. I would also like to be thought of as…

— Coretta Scott King