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This collection holds 155 civil rights movement quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Danny Glover, Cory Booker and Sammy Davis, Jr..

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I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement was not a mirage… It was live and in living color.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

No civil rights movement has gotten anywhere without the help of white liberals.

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

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

I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'

The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, right?

The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

The mainstream sort of presentation of the civil rights movement was not something that I directly inherited.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.

I grew up in Illinois in an environment where my parents were very politically active in the civil rights movement.

The church is the only mechanism for mass mobilization. That's why the civil rights movement came out of the church.

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

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.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.

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.

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.

I was part of the peace movement and part of the civil rights movement. You know what we heard? 'The majority of people don't support you.'

The civil rights movement is something I've looked into a lot. When I was about 23, I started reading up on it all and watching TV programmes.

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

I love how music and chants were used in the Civil Rights movement to help people keep marching. How songs were both a balm and a call to action.

Berry Gordy is a music legend, and we all know that, but I don't think Berry gets enough credit for his involvement with the civil rights movement.

John Lewis' vital role in the civil rights movement will never be forgotten, and his legacy will forever be acknowledged by our state and our country.

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.

It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the post-Civil War amendments.

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.

The essence of Ferguson is the spirit of the people, and I'm so happy to see the spirit because I haven't seen it like that since the Civil Rights Movement.

A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement, the women's rights movement, you name it.

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.'

From our nation's founding to the Civil Rights movement, Virginians have always stood up to fight for their most foundational right - a voice in our government.

One of the triumphs of the Civil Rights Movement is that when you travel through the South today, you do not feel overwhelmed by a residue of grievance and hate.

It is an insult for me to have been alive through the times you are calling the so-called civil rights movement. I don't celebrate my humiliations and my insults.

I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement.

I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the slow progress and the violence surrounding the Civil Rights Movement.

The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.

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