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When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
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1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to ge...
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There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesso...
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Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird...
JOHN LEWIS This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without q doubt.
JACKIE SPEIER Students will be most helpful to this civil rights movement when they have an education.
DAVID LUJAN Young people don't know what it feels like to be in those kinds of struggles, ... I mean, they've go...
LENNOX YEARWOOD It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about...
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CLAUDIA RANKINE What we found was that people had documented the civil rights movement basically through newspaper c...
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There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a c...
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I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court.
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ARCHIE SHEPP I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights moveme...
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DICK GREGORY In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the ru...
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Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, ...
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Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've ...
GARY BAUER![]()
The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took...
JIM BROWN![]()
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of rac...
MAGGIE GALLAGHER![]()
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil ri...
HENRY LOUIS GATES![]()
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil ...
JACK CANFIELD The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included...
ADAM SELZER![]()
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, ...
BOB EDWARDS![]()
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class n...
HENRY LOUIS GATES![]()
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success becau...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
ANDREW CUOMO We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singin...
NATE PARKER The civil rights movement in this country has been a long journey, and I think it's worthwhile, from...
BRUCE GORDON The civil rights movement in this country has been a long journey, and I think it's worthwhile, from...
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Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without i...
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I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run tho...
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First, the line of progress is never straight. For a period a movement may follow a straight line an...
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DOLORES HUERTA If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
DOLORES HUERTA My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
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DOLORES HUERTA I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fa...
DOLORES HUERTA My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great...
DOLORES HUERTA If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
DOLORES HUERTA went back to our old culture, the Latino culture.
DOLORES HUERTA We are inspired by what is happening here. The revolution here is electoral. It has inspired us to t...
DOLORES HUERTA My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an importan...
DOLORES HUERTA None of that would have happened had it not been for the marches. But our work is not done.
DOLORES HUERTA Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being veget...
DOLORES HUERTA We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both fee...
DOLORES HUERTA Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
DOLORES HUERTA The Mexican flag is like a symbol of dignity and identity and pride for the people who carry it. If ...
DOLORES HUERTA This is a terrific opportunity for young people to learn what the democratic process is about, the w...
DOLORES HUERTA I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming...
DOLORES HUERTA If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
DOLORES HUERTA Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- th...
DOLORES HUERTA
JOHN CONYERS We were stunned by the outpouring for the rally. It's an emerging civil rights movement. We're at a ...
BILL VANDENBERG I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
DANNY GLOVER
The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers. ANDREW YOUNG
The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody. SAMMY DAVIS, JR. The Voting Rights Act was really the whole core of the civil rights movement. It made a tremendous i...
CHARLES MATHIAS
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be r... JIM COSTA The Chicano movement was a direct result of the Black civil rights movement, and all of us were insp...
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a ...
JAMES T. WALSH When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
WADADA LEO SMITH My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the femin...
JUSTIN SANE A whole community starts on that road to fully realizing its own American citizenship or its rights ...
JAMES GARCIA Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people w...
ILYASAH SHABAZZ
My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordin... YAYA DACOSTA
My parents met when they were graduate students at UC Berkeley in the 1960s. They were both active i... KAMALA HARRIS
In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protes... GEORGE CLOONEY We have thoughts of designing a curriculum for the schools here that includes the history of the civ...
COLETTE JENKINS PARKER
At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the comm... BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON Racism is not over. It didn't end with the civil rights movement.
ERICA MERCKER
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
DAVID PRICE This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without a doubt.
JACKIE SPEIER
I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody,... CARLOS SANTANA
1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to ge... JOHN LEWIS
There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesso... ANDREW YOUNG
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and... BELL HOOKS
The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil ...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS It's a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was.
JULIAN BOND
There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liber... STOKELY CARMICHAEL
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird... JOHN LEWIS This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without q doubt.
JACKIE SPEIER Students will be most helpful to this civil rights movement when they have an education.
DAVID LUJAN Young people don't know what it feels like to be in those kinds of struggles, ... I mean, they've go...
LENNOX YEARWOOD It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about...
ADAM COHEN If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course ...
CLAUDIA RANKINE What we found was that people had documented the civil rights movement basically through newspaper c...
KAREN GLYNN
One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, yo... ALICE WALKER I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do h...
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT
Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense... NATASHA TRETHEWEY Back in 1970 we used to say that politics was the new cutting edge of the civil rights movement. Thi...
EDDIE WILLIAMS
Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble... JACK KEVORKIAN
There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a c... JACK KEVORKIAN
I will go to what they call a court. Only they call it a court. JACK KEVORKIAN I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the...
P. J. O'ROURKE The evolution of national unity and equal rights is all about what America represents as a nation to...
PATRICK MENDIS I think it's long overdue. I'm glad to see that South Carolina and its link to the entire Civil Righ...
CECIL WILLIAMS
When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America d... BILL COSBY It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establi...
ARCHIE SHEPP I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights moveme...
JAMES EARL JONES
Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the... NOAM CHOMSKY
It was a privilege to serve as the assistant attorney general for civil rights, a role that allowed ... THOMAS PEREZ I feel outraged that many years after the civil-rights movement, we are still living with racial pro...
IRENE DYMKAR We'll celebrate the black cowboy's role in settling the West as well as the modern civil rights move...
KATI ANDERSON
The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than bla...
DICK GREGORY In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the ru...
NEAL BOORTZ
Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, ... RUSSELL SIMMONS While growing up, on the news every night was the war in Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement. We w...
EUGENE DIAL
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've ... GARY BAUER
The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took... JIM BROWN
The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of rac... MAGGIE GALLAGHER
We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil ri... HENRY LOUIS GATES
One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil ... JACK CANFIELD The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included...
ADAM SELZER
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, ... BOB EDWARDS
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class n... HENRY LOUIS GATES
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success becau... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools.
ANDREW CUOMO We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singin...
NATE PARKER The civil rights movement in this country has been a long journey, and I think it's worthwhile, from...
BRUCE GORDON The civil rights movement in this country has been a long journey, and I think it's worthwhile, from...
BRUCE S. GORDON
Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without i... JAMES L. FARMER, JR.
I'm praying for 'Ice Age' 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10. Because I really think we can run tho... DENIS LEARY Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very ...
AHMET ERTEGUN I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represente...
CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN
At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war ... ARLO GUTHRIE In a normal nation, civil security is maintained by civil forces, and here the Iraqi police and mili...
LT. COLFRED WELLMAN
First, the line of progress is never straight. For a period a movement may follow a straight line an... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. When you have a conflict, that means that there are truths that have to be addressed on each side of...
DOLORES HUERTA If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
DOLORES HUERTA My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.
DOLORES HUERTA Professional farmworkers who know how to do a number of different jobs, whether it be pruning or pic...
DOLORES HUERTA I think organized labor is a necessary part of democracy. Organized labor is the only way to have fa...
DOLORES HUERTA My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great...
DOLORES HUERTA If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
DOLORES HUERTA went back to our old culture, the Latino culture.
DOLORES HUERTA We are inspired by what is happening here. The revolution here is electoral. It has inspired us to t...
DOLORES HUERTA My mother never made me do anything for my brothers, like serve them. I think that's an importan...
DOLORES HUERTA None of that would have happened had it not been for the marches. But our work is not done.
DOLORES HUERTA Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being veget...
DOLORES HUERTA We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both fee...
DOLORES HUERTA Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.
DOLORES HUERTA The Mexican flag is like a symbol of dignity and identity and pride for the people who carry it. If ...
DOLORES HUERTA This is a terrific opportunity for young people to learn what the democratic process is about, the w...
DOLORES HUERTA I remember as a little girl going down to the beet fields in the Dakotas and in Nebraska and Wyoming...
DOLORES HUERTA If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.
DOLORES HUERTA Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- th...
DOLORES HUERTA
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. 
It is better to kill one hundred innocents than to let one guilty person go. 
Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees. 
Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face. 
Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one think... 