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I never thought I’d see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi. (Movement Quotes)
It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his I Have A Dream speech, two months before he did it in Washington. (Movement Quotes)
It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget. (Movement Quotes)
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I’ve always wondered how on earth people of good will could have conceivably lived with Jim Crow - with the daily degradations, the lynchings in plain sight, and, as the movement gathered force, with the fire hoses and the police dogs and the billy clubs. (Movement Quotes)
I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn’t know that black people could write books. I didn’t know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up. (Movement Quotes)
There’s no problem on the planet that can’t be solved without violence. That’s the lesson of the civil rights movement. (Movement Quotes)
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. (Movement Quotes)
In cultural history, the civil rights movement came before the women’s movement (Movement Quotes)
For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement (Movement Quotes)
It’s a misconception to believe that the resistance ended with the civil rights movement (Movement Quotes)
Students for a Democratic Society was also affiliated with the civil rights movement everywhere (Movement Quotes)
President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement (Movement Quotes)
People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc. (Movement Quotes)
In fact, James Meredith who was once the icon of the civil rights movement. He supported me for governor! (Movement Quotes)
In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist. (Movement Quotes)
The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history. (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. (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. (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. (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. (Movement Quotes)
America’s revolutionary deists saw themselves as - and they were - participants in an international movement that drew on most of the same literary sources across the civilized world. (Movement Quotes)
Women’s propaganda must touch upon all those questions which are of great importance to the general proletarian movement. The main task is, indeed, to awaken the women’s class consciousness and to incorporate them into the class struggle. (Movement Quotes)
I have never experienced racism in the feminist movement, so it concerned me to think that I was unable to see the subject clearly because I came from white, middle-class privilege. (Movement Quotes)
When I was dancing, whether it was the music or the story, the question was ‘Why am I doing this piece, and why am I dancing?’ It is exactly the same when you are acting. You have a very close relationship with your body movement. You have to find the physicality of your character. (Movement Quotes)
He stopped and leaned against a pole and looked up at the deaf and swollen sky. It was a movement of dark shapes, a hurrying, a running.He closed his eyes. (Hunger) (Movement Quotes)
A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door’s shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs. (Movement Quotes)
The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West. (Movement Quotes)
Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land. (Movement Quotes)
Luckily, I discovered ice skating when I was eight and a half years old. There were two wonderful ponds within walking distance of my house. After all the physical activity the summer provided, I craved movement in the cold of winter. I had no skates, so Mom stuffed socks into my brother’s old ones. (Movement Quotes)
During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a ‘third force’ in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy. (Movement Quotes)