Civil Rights Movement Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Rights, Racism, Victory

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• I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.

  Russell Simmons

  Jobs, Father, Thinking

  "Hip-hop philosopher". Interview with Lisa-Marie Klimas, www.seventeen.com. February 22, 2007.

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• Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

  Danny Glover

  Children, Rights, Movement

  "On Movies, Money & Politics". Interview with Peter Biskind, www.thenation.com. March 18, 1999.

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• Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

  Glenn Beck

  Lying, Believe, Character

  "Glenn Beck on 'Restoring Honor' Rally, America's future and His Critics". "Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace", www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2010.

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• 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

  Kings, Moving, Thinking

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Rights, Movement, Easy

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• I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

  Al Franken

  Rights, Vietnam, Movement

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

  Henry Louis Gates

  Thinking, Rights, Movement

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• 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

  Rights, Class, Black

  "The biggest brother" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2003.

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• I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change.

  Richard Lamm

  Party, Past, Thinking

  CNN's "Inside Politics Weekend" with Jeanne Meserve, www.cnn.com. July 7, 1996.

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• 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

  Country, Philosophy, War

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• Quakers are known for wanting to give back. Ban the bomb and the civil rights movement and the native American struggle for justice - those things were very, very front-burner in my childhood, as were the ideas of working for peace and if you have more than you need, then you share it with people who don't.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Struggle, Native American, Rights

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• Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.

  Dan Rather

  Hate, Eye, Rights

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• I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.

  Emma Stone

  Kings, School, Rights

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• 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

  Rights, Movement, Lessons

  "Andrew Young: Nothing you can't solve without violence". Interview with Henry Unger, www.ajc.com. January 12, 2013.

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• Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and whites, but also women and Latinos; and Asians and Native Americans; and gay Americans and Americans with a disability. They swung open for you, and they swung open for me. And that's why I'm standing here today-because of those efforts, because of that legacy.

  Barack Obama

  Inspiring, Native American, Gay

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• You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Rights, Years

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• As Dr. King said, an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. It is that creed of the civil rights movement that still motivates us today...So today, we take up the cause of joining arms with our immigrant brothers and sisters in that spirit... to lend a hand to those who confront injustice as a result of a broken immigration system.

  Steven Horsford

  Brother, Kings, Rights

  "Why Immigration Reform Is Part of the Civil Rights Struggle" by Arturo Conde, abcnews.go.com. March 1, 2013.

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• The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.

  Samuel Bowers

  Mean, Rights, People

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• Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.

  Mary Jane Patterson

  Rights, Movement, Apartheid

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• How blind to believe the civil rights movement ever ended. The civil rights movement never ends, and it never will. It has been marching since the beginning of time. Where Martin Luther King started is where Gandhi left off, and where he started, Abe Lincoln left off, and before that Whitfield all the way back to Moses. God has not moved. We have. But it is never too late. We are not at the mercy of these events. We can alter the course of history. We can stand against the dangerous arc of this story. But we need people who are willing to speak truth.

  Glenn Beck

  Kings, Believe, Rights

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• 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

  Rights, Movement, Parks

  Source: lasentinel.net

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• When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation to the big house... This is just an anathema to everything that the civil rights movement was truly all about and what it accomplished.

  Mike Huckabee

  Rights, Law, White

  "Huckabee: Michael Brown acted like a 'thug'" By Alexandra Jaffe, www.cnn.com. December 3, 2014.

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• Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This is a book-about maturation, family, education, and social change-every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should experience.

  Sena Jeter Naslund

  Girl, Book, Eye

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• The trouble is, SMers are allowing themselves to be defined by what they are not. We think, "Oh, so many people believe that we're all murderers and rapists, and we have to explain that we're not!" Uh so, a slogan for the gay civil rights movement should be "Normal, Non-threatening and Not After Your Children"?

  Laura Antoniou

  Children, Believe, Gay

  "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny". Pucker Up, Issue 1, Winter 1995.

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