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[A.J. Muste] was very influenced - in - influential in the peace movement, in the civil rights movement. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
I think every high school student who was alert during the early 60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
Senator John Stennis: The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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 (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
The Civil Rights movement should thank God for Bull Connor. He’s helped it as much as Abraham Lincoln (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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 (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
It’s a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
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. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor! (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. (Civil Rights Movement Quotes)