- Forgave
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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
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Black women fought for the right to vote during the suffrage movement and fought again during the civil rights movement. The rote narrative in the press of the civil rights movement is truncated with the briefest of histories of men like Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, or John Lewis.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up in Mississippi - a state that historically was a place of racial injustice, inequality and oppression - gave me the unique opportunity to experience first-hand the evolution of the civil rights movement through the eyes of my parents, grandparents, and the black elders of our community.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can't separate the phenomenal birth of unionism in the United States of America from the Pullman porters. This same small group of men, who grew to be 10,000 strong, was also the organizational foundation for the civil rights movement and all of the gains that were made in the '40s and the '50s. That, and the black church.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father wanted me to be a dentist like him, or any doctor, really. There was this attitude of, 'The civil rights movement was not about you being an artist.'
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020