- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Civil Rights Movement Quotes
Remembering the fight, not just the anthem.
These civil rights movement quotes push back against a softened, sing-along version of history, insisting the real resistance faced deserves to be remembered too. Explore Equality quotes for related lines.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something like same sex marriage. Black Americans tend to have a higher degree of religiosity.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.
- American Lives
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s civil rights movement made demands that altered the course of American lives and backed up those demands with the willingness to give up your life in service of your civil rights, with Black Lives Matter, a more internalized change is being asked for: recognition.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Obama years will be remembered as a cultural - and legal - tipping point for equality for all people who do not identify as strictly heterosexual, arguably the civil rights movement of our times. The president signed the bill repealing 'don't ask, don't tell.' The Defense of Marriage Act was struck down by the Supreme Court.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.
- Peace
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Hometown
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020