Civil Rights Movement Quotes
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I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
— Danny Glover
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
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 greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.
— Septima Poinsette Clark
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
I was so hungry to learn. My mother drilled this into me. When you read,she said, you know--and you can help yourself and others.
— Carole Boston Weatherford
I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.
— Allan Dare Pearce
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
— Stokely Carmichael
There is no noise as powerful as the sound of the marching feet of a determined people.
— Martin Luther King Jr. Papers Project
God bless mood equalizers. and all moods are created equal. i am the fucking civil rights movement of moods
— John Green
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
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
— Bernice Johnson Reagon
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
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
This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement
— Hamid Dabashi
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
— Henry Louis Gates
Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.
— Mary Jane Patterson
Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything.
— Augusta Scattergood
The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.
— Samuel Bowers
We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
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
Sit on the truth too long and you mash the life right out of it.
— Margaret McMullan
This is how it works. Everything is connected. Every choice matters. Every person is vital, and valuable, and worthy of respect.
— Deborah Wiles
The so-called civil rights movement as it exists today is used as a Communist program for revolution in America.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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
Hollywood, Woodstock, nor the hippie culture was the source of power of the 1960's freedom movement. God was.
— Glenn Beck
Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper.
— A.E. Samaan
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.
— Ruben Santiago-Hudson
A freedom given up is not so easily regained.
— Rivera Sun
But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.
— Anne Moody
The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
— Marvin Ammori
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?
— Russell Simmons
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 unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
— Andrew Young
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
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'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 achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.
— Fredric Wertham
I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.
— Anne Moody
I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.
— Henry Louis Gates
Racism is a disease of white people
— Albert Einstein
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
— David Price
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln.
— John F. Kennedy
I am tired of making history. I want to make progress.
— Mark Anthony Peterson