“Well, I was always a bit of a political junkie. Even as a kid I would read biographies of presidents and of civil rights leaders like Martin Luther King and Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington.” WellsKidsPoliticalBitsPresidentLeaderRightsKingsCivil RightsBiographiesLutherJunkieCivil Rights Leaders Author:John Legend
“President Eisenhower was a fine general and a good, decent man, but if he had fought World War II the way he fought for civil rights, we would all be speaking German now.” IfsMenWorldWayWarPresidentRightsFineCivil RightsWar Of The WorldsDecentWorld War IiWorld War IDecent ManPresident Eisenhower Author:Roy Wilkins
“We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We don't feel that in 1964, living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom, and supposedly the leader of the free world, we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a President from Texas in Washington, D.C., to make up their minds that our people are due now some degree of civil rights. No, we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantFeelsShouldMindMeanCountryWaitingPresidentJusticeLeaderRightsDegreesShould HaveDuesCivil RightsTexasSenatorsCongressmanFree World Book:By any means necessary Source: By any means necessary
“This bill attempts to make sure that President Clinton is not allowed to do by Executive Order what Congress has declined to enact in the past two congressional sessions namely, to treat homosexuals as a special class protected under various titles of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” TwoPastOrderPresidentClassRightsSpecialTreatsBillsClintonCongressVariousScaryCivil RightsTitlesExecutivesProtectedHomosexualSessionPresident ClintonExecutive OrdersCivil Rights ActCivil Rights Act Of 1964 Author:Jesse Helms
“Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The era of Reconstruction and then the subsequent dismantling of Reconstruction sent us in a tailspin. Then we had the Civil Rights movement. Now we have our first non-white president. We have a pattern of moving apart and then coming back together throughout the history of this country. Each time, we come closer.” FirstsCountryTogetherRememberMovingPresidentWhiteRightsHappenedMovementSlaveryPatternsThings HappenCivil RightsErasHeroicComing BackCivil Rights MovementBack TogetherReconstruction Author:Wynton Marsalis
“President Obama is a man who had certain advantages because of the civil rights movement. He had the opportunity to go to some of the best schools in this country - schools that train you how to run the political paradigm, not challenge it. The leaders of the Black Power Movement were challenging that paradigm.” MenCountryRunningSchoolPoliticalCertainOpportunityBlackPresidentChallengesLeaderRightsMovementAdvantageTrainCivil RightsPresident ObamaParadigmCivil Rights MovementBlack PowerBest School Author:Danny Glover