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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 guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing. — Allan Dare Pearce

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

Senator John Stennis:
The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man ... It freed my soul. — Joe Biden

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

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

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination. — John Lewis

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement. — Joe Biden

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive. — Cory Booker

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

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

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

Son draws comics of Mongolian invasions and the Civil Rights Movement - — Adam Johnson

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

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

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

I loved the land that surrounded me but hated the history that haunted that land. — Mark Kemp

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

The wearying battles of the civil rights movement have not cured everything. — Jon M. Dennis

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

The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. — Marvin Ammori

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement. — Henry Rollins

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

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

The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He's helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln. — John F. Kennedy

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

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

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. — Jim Costa

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody. — Sammy Davis Jr.

Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid. — Mary Jane Patterson

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam. — Al Franken

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement. — David Price