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Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement. -- Danny Glover
This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement -- Hamid Dabashi
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society. -- Andrew Aydin
The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!" -- Michael R. Burch
The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn't just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic. -- Aisha Hinds
My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well. -- Janis Ian
By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress, racism remains. -- Bill Cosby
Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. -- Norman Jewison
I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the Civil Rights Movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on. -- Charlayne Hunter-Gault
LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME to find out. NOW. RIGHT NOW. -- Shaun King
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker; my mother was a secretary with the Panthers. -- Yaya DaCosta
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
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I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate. -- Alice Walker
I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement. -- Douglas Brinkley
I think young people don't really know that much about the Civil Rights Movement and about the history of African Americans in this country. It's not taught enough in school. -- Don Lemon
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961 -- Bernice Johnson Reagon
What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God. -- Neale Donald Walsch
I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change. -- Kenneth Chenault
In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come. -- Peter Riegert
Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights. -- Noam Chomsky
It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz. -- Archie Shepp
You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I really had a great appreciation for the struggle that took place. -- Terri Sewell
The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Like most Americans of my age, I was very impressed by the dynamic capacities of the law, demonstrated by the Civil Rights Movement and then Watergate, animated by Sam Ervin's mantra that no person is above the law. -- Scott Turow
I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify. -- Radhanath Swami
I have loved the Department of Justice ever since, as a young boy, I watched Robert Kennedy prove during the Civil Rights Movement how the department can - and must - always be a force for that which is right. -- Eric Holder
Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights are never given to you. They have to be fought for and they have to be taken. -- Jehane Noujaim
We chose to frame "March" around the inauguration of Barack Obama because it was such an important moment in the story of the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the fulfillment of Dr. [Martin Luther] King's dream, but it was a major down payment. -- Andrew Aydin
I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else. -- Denis Leary
It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington. -- David Maraniss
It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget. -- Gerald Horne
I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice. -- Dan Wakefield
I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up. -- Endesha Ida Mae Holland
I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. -- Henry Louis Gates
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. -- Andrew Young
One thing the gay rights movement taught the world is the importance of being visible. -- Charles M. Blow
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. -- Ruben Santiago-Hudson
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. -- Henry Louis Gates
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. -- Stokely Carmichael
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement. -- Andrew Young
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic. -- bell hooks
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus. -- Kinky Friedman
Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking. -- James L. Farmer, Jr.
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything. -- Carol Moseley Braun
Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement. -- Angela Davis
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way. -- Charles B. Rangel
The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character. -- Pam Grier
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement, Mohandas Ganhi in India, Nelson Mandela in South Africa are examples of people standing up with courage and non-violence to bring about needed changes. -- Jack Canfield
When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies. -- Michael Moore
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens. -- David Cameron
Martin Luther King, Jr., would have been the last person to have wanted his iconization and his heroism. He was an enormously guilt-laden man. He was drenched in a sense of shame about his being featured as the preeminent leader of African-American culture and the civil rights movement. -- Michael Eric Dyson
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. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework? -- Henry Louis Gates
There are a lot of people in the animal rights movement who can be very passionate and aggressive, and I applaud people's passion, but when people are judgmental and aggressive, all you end up doing is getting other people to turn away in irritation. To change people's minds, you have to respect the people you're talking to. -- Moby
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody. -- Sammy Davis, Jr.
In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women's movement. -- Marisa Tomei
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. -- Henry Rollins
I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam. -- Al Franken
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement. -- Joe Biden
It's a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement. -- Danny Glover
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere. -- Bill Ayers
The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation. -- Fredric Wertham
Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid. -- Mary Jane Patterson
President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. -- Danny Glover
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement. -- David Price
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People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. -- Paul Beatty
True, the movement for women's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones. -- Emma Goldman
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. -- John F. Kennedy
[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement. -- Nat Hentoff
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. -- Jim Costa
In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor! -- David Duke
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right? -- Russell Simmons
The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America. -- Ezra Taft Benson
The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end. -- Samuel Bowers
The women's rights movement of the 1970s had not yet emerged; except for Bella Abzug, I had no women supporters. -- Constance Baker Motley
In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist. -- Nat Hentoff
I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement. -- Zainab Salbi
The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history. -- Tom Cardamone
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
Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul. -- Joe Biden
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active in the civil-rights movement. -- Kamala Harris
The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization. -- Danny Glover
Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings. -- Ari Shapiro
Freedom of movement is the very essence of our free society -- once the right to travel is curtailed, all other rights suffer. -- William O. Douglas
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community. -- Henry Louis Gates
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Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other. -- Ahmet Ertegun
As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement. -- Shane Claiborne
Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond. -- Charlotte Bunch
As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement. -- James T. Walsh
My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh. -- Justin Sane
The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics. -- Luis Gutierrez
I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement. -- Bill Ayers
There could be a powerful international women's rights movement if only philanthropists would donate as much to real women as to paintings and sculptures of women. -- Nicholas D. Kristof
Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them. -- Ann Coulter
There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts. -- Bayard Rustin
Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement was established. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for. -- Otis Moss III
Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it! -- Andrew Aydin
Newsman are the ones who - without them we don't have a civil rights movement, we don't have a women's movement, we don't have a Vietnam movement. -- George Clooney
I think what the Tea Party movement is - I'm all for it; they're out there fighting for our rights, fighting for what our forefathers stood for. -- Luke Scott
No matter how noble the original intentions, the seductions of power can turn any movement from one seeking equal rights to one that would deny them to others. -- Tammy Bruce
The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. -- Henry Louis Gates
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals. -- Jonathan Lethem
Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did. -- Jose Antonio Vargas
I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life. -- Mike Huckabee
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news. -- Bob Edwards
I think hip-hop has definitely brought the black experience to white kids more than the civil rights movement did and more than any teacher's well-intentioned lecture on Martin Luther King did. -- Henry Rollins
Had it not been for the ministry of my good friend Dr. Billy Graham, my work in the civil rights movement would not have been as successful as it has been. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Women had a rights movement where they fought for changes. Men... don't band together in quite that way. It happens not in such a public-cascade way as in a house-to-house way. -- Hanna Rosin
Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus. -- Charles B. Rangel
The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate. -- Al Franken

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