Civil rights Quote by Tom Cardamone

The Stonewall uprising was a day when brave individuals took to the streets to fight back against harassment and hate, and by doing so,…

— Sharice Davids

“I guess not everyone gets their Stonewall.”

— Rodney Ross

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

I think I first learned about Stonewall in Queer Theatre class at the University of Pittsburgh. It made me mad that queer people out…

— Alaska

The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One of the chapters of history that's least studied by historians…

— Tom Hayden

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

— Yolanda King

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

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

— Henry Louis Gates

The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.

— Julian Bond

“Civil rights protests were frequently depicted as criminal rather than political in nature, and federal courts were accused of excessive “lenience” toward lawlessness, thereby…

— Michelle Alexander

“of the Civil War. They became famously”

— John Metcalfe

“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