Civil rights Quote by Thomas Sowell

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the…

— Carol Moseley Braun

“The civil rights generation is exiting the American stage—not in a haze of nostalgia but in a cloud of gloom, troubled by the persistence…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

Racism was once just racism, a terrible bigotry that people nevertheless learned to live with, if not as a necessary evil then as an…

— Shelby Steele

There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the…

— Jeff Sessions

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

— Yolanda King

“What started as a struggle for equal rights and a more color-blind society has turned into a major industry--the victim industry. Like the rest…

— Tammy Bruce

I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there…

— Barack Obama

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress,…

— Bill Cosby

During Black History Month, I'm reminded yet again of the ways that the struggle for civil rights is interwoven with the struggle for workers'…

— Tom Perez

“Despite the strides America has made in the civil rights movement, eradicating Jim Crow laws, teaching tolerance, and electing an African-American president, racial inequality…

— Lisa Bloom

The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate…

— 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