Quotes About Civil Rights Movements

#1. The rise of the antiwar and civil rights movements, along with the emergence of radical groups such as the Black Panthers, the Black Liberation Army, the Puerto Rican independence movement, and the American Indian movement, saw a return to systematized abuse within the prison system.

Chris Hedges

#2. Yes. My mother was and still is a Folk Singer. She was very involved in the political movements for Unions and Civil rights. She sang with Pete Seeger among others. My father was an Actor.

Vicki Sue Robinson

#3. When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.

Michael Moore

#4. If he only knew how often she and Eileen had discussed the benefits of Netflix on dateless weekend nights.

Kristin Billerbeck

#5. Girls countin on me to be there like missin rubbers.

Drake

#6. For her, reading was directly linked to pleasure, not to knowledge or enigmas or constructions or verbal labyrinths ...

Roberto Bolano

#7. If you look at the history of other movements, whether Civil Rights or environmental rights, these are all decades-long undertakings.

Mitch Kapor

#8. Justice needs money; it always has ... whether for abolition of slavery and early women's rights movements or the civil rights and environmental drives of our generation.

Ralph Nader

#9. I cannot teach a child I do not know

Ted Sizer

#10. To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.

Piet Mondrian

#11. No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

Mark Twain

#12. What distinguishes the "war on terror" is that it is a war against a concept, not a nation. And the enemy concept, it seems to me, is pluralism.

Mohsin Hamid

#13. Our situation is intolerable, but what's worse
is to sit here and do nothing.

Rita Dove

#14. We have the data to prove to men that gender equality is not a zero-sum game, but a win-win.

Michael Kimmel

#15. When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put in, and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them.

Al Sharpton

#16. Books have played a role in almost every one of the world's great civil and human rights movements, but only because people who read them decided to act. Reading brings with it responsibility.

Will Schwalbe

#17. Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered ...

Thomas Merton

#18. I do think it's extremely important to acknowledge the gains that were made by the civil rights movement, the black power movement.Institutional transformations happened directly as a result of the movements that people, unnamed people, organized and gave their lives to.

Angela Davis

#19. I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

David Talbot