Civil Rights Movement Quotes - Page 2

• The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

  John Lewis

  Rights, Movement, Saws

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• The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today. The civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women's movement, and the equality movement for our LGBT brothers and sisters are all manifestations of these rights.

  Dolores Huerta

  Country, Brother, Direct Action

  "Election Day is the Most Important Day of Your Life" by Joe Baker, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 27, 2016.

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• Well, it's the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.

  Russell Simmons

  Rights, Hands, Movement

  "CNN Student News" with Judy Fortin, www.cnn.com. April 25, 2005.

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• If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Kings, Rights, Race

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

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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.

  Dick Gregory

  White, Rights, Black

  "Dick Gregory's Role as Michael Jackson's Adviser". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. July 12, 2005.

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• 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.

  Jon Meacham

  Dog, Epic, Fire

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• When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  School, Rights, Culture

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• As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

  James T. Walsh

  Change, Kings, Rights

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• I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Rights, People, Focus

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• At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.

  Bernice Johnson Reagon

  Song, Commercial Music, Rights

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• If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.

  Kinky Friedman

  Country, Hippie, Rights

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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 those characters into the '60s, and I'm talking the 1960s, you know? The Civil Rights Movement. That's what I'm praying for, because then I wouldn't have to do anything else.

  Denis Leary

  Running, Character, Thinking

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  Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.

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• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  Barbara Jordan

  Inspirational, Future, Government

  1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 12 July 1976, New York, NY

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• There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.

  Diane Nash

  Responsibility, Power, Realizing

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• We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  African American, Baptists, Socialism

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• The talk of winning our share is not the easy one of disengagement and flight, but the hard one of work, of short as well as long jumps, of disappointments, and of sweet success.

  Roy Wilkins

  Success, Sweet, Disappointment

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• Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dream, Kings, Kids

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• Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• 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.

  James L. Farmer, Jr.

  Liars, Lying, Rights

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• Ever since the civil rights movement, the black church has always encouraged people to utilize their voting right, which is a right that was fought for.

  Otis Moss III

  Rights, People, Voting

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• There is a strong moralistic strain in the civil rights movement that would remind us that power corrupts, forgetting that the absence of power also corrupts.

  Bayard Rustin

  Strong, Rights, Movement

  Bayard Rustin (2003). “Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Thinking, Rights, Important

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

  Andrew Young

  Mother, Hero, Rights

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