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“We all too often have socialism for the rich and rugged free market capitalism for the poor.”

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Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“There is no power in the world that can stop the forward march of free men and women when they are joined in the solidarity of human brotherhood.”

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Author:Walter Reuther

“The civil rights movement didn't begin in Montgomery and it didn't end in the 1960s. It continues on to this very minute.”

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Author:Julian Bond

“Because of the Civil Rights movement, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody ... Not just for blacks and whites, but also women and Latinos; and Asians and Native Americans; and gay Americans and Americans with a disability. They swung open for you, and they swung open for me. And that's why I'm standing here today-because of those efforts, because of that legacy.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?”

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Author:Tupac Shakur

“As Dr. King said, an injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. It is that creed of the civil rights movement that still motivates us today...So today, we take up the cause of joining arms with our immigrant brothers and sisters in that spirit... to lend a hand to those who confront injustice as a result of a broken immigration system.”

“Violence is black children going to school for 12 years and receiving 6 years' worth of education.”

“My father was a slave and my people died to build this country and I am going to stay here and have a part of it just like you.”

“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.”

“In the ’60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protest song. There were songs about the civil rights movement, the women’s rights movement, the antiwar movement. It wasn’t just Bob Dylan, it was everybody at the time.”

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Author:George Clooney

“The civil rights movement was devoid of grace; it was using some unfortunate people as means to a communistic end.”

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Author:Samuel Bowers

“In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?”

“The humanity of all Americans is diminished when any group is denied rights granted to others.”

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Author:Julian Bond

“Im a child of the Civil Rights Movement.”

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Author:Danny Glover

“I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.”

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Author:Russell Simmons

“Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.”

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Author:James L. Farmer, Jr.

“The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about”

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Author:John Hume

“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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Author:Jonathan Lethem

“Look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin.”

“The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.”

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Author:Maggie Gallagher

“For many years now, I have been an outspoken supporter of civil and human rights for gay and lesbian people. Gays and lesbians stood up for civil rights in Montgomery, Selma, in Albany, Ga. and St. Augustine, Fla., and many other campaigns of the Civil Rights Movement. Many of these courageous men and women were fighting for my freedom at a time when they could find few voices for their own, and I salute their contributions.”

“The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.”

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Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon

“There's good reason to be excited. You have the first woman running who is qualified, and a very attractive African-American who has demonstrated crossover appeal. I got involved in politics 40 years ago during the civil rights movement, so yes, it's an exciting thing.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“There is a source of power in each of us that we don't realize until we take responsibility.”

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Author:Diane Nash

“Freedom, by definition, is people realizing that they are their own leaders.”

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Author:Diane Nash

“Martin Luther King's 1963 'I have a dream' speech was a thrilling milestone in the civil rights movement, so enduring that we tend to attribute its searing power to a kind of magic. But Gary Younge's meditative retrospection on its significance reminds us of all the micro-moments of transformation behind the scenes--the thought and preparation, vision and revision--whose currency fed that magnificent lightning bolt in history.”

“The great social justice changes in our country have happened when people came together, organized, and took direct action. It is this right that sustains and nurtures our democracy today. The civil rights movement, the labor movement, the women's movement, and the equality movement for our LGBT brothers and sisters are all manifestations of these rights.”

“My friends in the Congress, I have known Coretta King since I went south during the civil rights movement as a lawyer. She was a vibrant, consistent, totally dedicated partner with her husband.”

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Author:John Conyers

“Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.”

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Author:Myrlie Evers-Williams

“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.”

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Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“Our involvement in the civil rights movement is what sent us into our involvement against apartheid.”

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Author:Mary Jane Patterson

“If the psychic energies of the average mass of people watching a football game or a musical comedy could be diverted into the rational channels of a freedom movement, they would be invincible.”

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

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Author:Joe Biden

“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.”

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Author:Angela Davis

“The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.”

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Author:Sammy Davis, Jr.

“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.”

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Author:David Talbot

“My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.”

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Author:Justin Sane

“At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.”

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Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon

“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”

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Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon

“I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience”

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Author:Bernice Johnson Reagon

“Hate is too great a burden to bear.”

“When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at the time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change”

“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.”

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Author:James T. Walsh

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

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Author:David Price

“Yes, it is hard out there. But hard is relative. I come from a middle-class family, my parents are academics. I was born after the Civil Rights movement, I was a toddler during the women's movement, I live in the United States of America, all of which means I am allowed to own my freedom, my rights, my voice and my uterus.”

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“LISTEN: If you ever wondered what you would do if you were alive in the Civil Rights Movement, NOW IS THE TIME to find out. NOW. RIGHT NOW.”

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Author:Shaun King

“Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.”

“Mrs. Parks was a shy, soft spoken woman who was uncomfortable being revered as a symbol of the civil rights movement. She only hoped to inspire young people to achieve great things.”

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Author:Jim Costa

“The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.”

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Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“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.”

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Author:Charles Rangel

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