Civil Rights Movement Quotes - Page 8

• In our country there's never been a successful progressive struggle that did not have a soundtrack, whether it was the civil rights movement, workers' rights movement, women's rights movement. There's got to be songs at the barricades, and those are the kinds of songs that I try to write.

  Tom Morello

  Country, Song, Struggle

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the United States over the period of the last several months.

  Robert Kennedy

  Rights, Black, Movement

  Remark during testimony of Floyd McKissick before a Senate subcommittee of which Kennedy was a member (December 8, 1966); reported in "Federal Role in Urban Affairs", hearings before the Subcommittee on Executive Reorganization of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate, 89th Congress, 2d session, part 11, (p. 2312), 1967.

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

  Jim Costa

  Rights, Victory, Important

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• Mis padres participaron muy activamente en el Movimiento por los Derechos Civiles. Mi padre trabajaba en el Comité Coordinador Estudiantil No Violento (SNCC) y mi madre era secretaria de los Panthers.

  Yaya DaCosta

  Madre, padre, derechos

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• In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the rule. The majority of people were white, and the white majority had little or no respect for any rights which the black minority had relative to property, or even to their own lives. The majority - the mob and occasionally the lynch mob - ruled.

  Neal Boortz

  Rights, Civilization, White

  Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth about Liberals”, p.56, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Mi padre fue miembro de la Generación de los Grandes que logró la victoria en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Fue la generación que salvó al mundo del fascismo, volvió a casa y construyó la gran clase media estadounidense, lideró el movimiento por los derechos civiles, protegió nuestro medio ambiente y creó grandes programas como Medicare.

  John F. Kerry

  Dad, War, Home

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• This is Not Another Revolution. This is a Civil Rights Movement

  Hamid Dabashi

  Rights, Movement, Revolution

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• The social issues outside of football are not as defined as they were earlier, when integration took place and certain rights were legislated. The Civil Rights movement is over. Individuals can buy homes wherever they want, travel first class wherever they want, eat wherever they want.

  Jim Brown

  Football, Home, Rights

  "Q&A with Jim Brown". Interview with Charles Robinson, www.yahoo.com. November 30, 2006.

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• There's no question that the black middle class has benefited greatly by the civil rights movement. But there is a large black underclass that does not have access to jobs. If there's no clear road to income and status except crime, we should expect social problems. You can't solve this problem without addressing the economic issues, and the same is true with gender.

  Betty Friedan

  Jobs, Class, Issues

  Fuente: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist.

  Nat Hentoff

  Kings, Rights, Movement

  Fuente: thedailyhatch.org

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• The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

  Fredric Wertham

  Rights, Achievement, Movement

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• Senator John Stennis:
  The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.

  Joe Biden

  Men, White, Rights

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• President [Barack] Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement.

  Danny Glover

  Men, Rights, President

  Fuente: progressive.org

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• I've always felt that homophobic attitudes and policies were unjust and unworthy of a free society and must be opposed by all Americans who believe in democracy. The civil rights movement thrives on unity and inclusion, not division and exclusion. My husband's struggle parallels that of the gay rights movement.

  Coretta Scott King

  Husband, Attitude, Believe

  Chicago Sun Times, April 1, 1998.

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• Any of us who work on the task of solving the climate crisis have at times an internal struggle between hope and despair. But that's one of the things that connects this climate movement to the previous great moral revolutions, like the civil rights movement and more recently the gay rights movement. So those who feel despair should be of good cheer, as the Bible says. Have faith, have hope. We are going to win this.

  Al Gore

  Cheer, Struggle, Gay

  "Former VP Al Gore on environmentalism, Trump, and the climate crisis". "Sunday Morning" with Lee Cowan, www.cbsnews.com. July 17, 2017.

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• I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.

  Radhanath Swami

  Kings, War, Rights

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• The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important 'cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

  Al Franken

  Boys, Two, Rights

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

  Joe Biden

  Rights, Movement, Facts

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• We don't want to blame the victim. The civil rights movement had a profound effect on the United States and on the American mind, maybe unique in the world. Once we realized how victimized people of color had been, an honest empathy went out and that's how we got civil rights legislation.

  Jerome Kagan

  Unique, People, Profound

  Fuente: www.pbs.org

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• The advent of the civil rights movement during the 50s and 60s made it very plain crystal clear to me that we had an obligation to do what we could to make real the Constitution of the United States of America.

  John Lewis

  Real, Civil Rights, Constitution

  Fuente: www.washingtonpost.com

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• The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is part of our nation's history and has redirected our country in many instances, from the feminist movement to the Civil Rights movement and beyond.

  Rory Kennedy

  Country, People, Feminist

  Fuente: www.esquire.com

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• You've got the whole civil rights movements emanating from the south, you've got the music that came out of the south that is the core of our current music, so for me that thinking comes out of having Dukes of Hazzard thrown in your face: that the south is a bunch of twangy people that I can't understand. So this is, hopefully, part of the movement to restore the south to its proper and rightful place in our nation... which is huge and pervasive. It's not about Texas - I'm not saying Texas doesn't have it's own unique history - but the south has this at its core.

  Debra Winger

  Único, Pensamiento, Gente

  Fuente: www.stumpedmagazine.com

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• El Ku Klux Klan había utilizado el miedo, la intimidación y el asesinato para oprimir brutalmente a los afroamericanos que buscaban justicia e igualdad, y pretendía responder del mismo modo a los jóvenes trabajadores del movimiento por los derechos civiles en Misisipi.

  Charles Rangel

  Equality, Rights, Justice

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• It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establishment was turned on by the Civil Rights Movement and the artistic revolution that was becoming a part of jazz.

  Archie Shepp

  Rights, Interesting, Political

  "A Dialogue with Archie Shepp". Interview with Scott Cashman, www.archieshepp.net. December 10, 1990.

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• Llegué a la mayoría de edad en los años 60, e inicialmente mis esperanzas y sueños estaban invertidos en la política y los movimientos de la época: el movimiento contra la guerra, el movimiento por los derechos civiles. Trabajé en la campaña de Bobby Kennedy a la presidencia cuando era adolescente en California y la noche en que fue asesinado.

  David Talbot

  Sueño, Guerra, Adolescente

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