“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.” PeopleThinkingMadeImportantBlackResultsRightsHappenedMovementGainsTransformationCivil RightsAcknowledgeOrganizedCivil Rights MovementBlack Power Author:Angela Davis
“India's democracy where over 1 billion people have a voice in deciding their future is a world example of how governance can incorporate diversity into a movement for inclusive growth. New modes of democratic engagement, especially through using e-governance are allowing greater access to fundamental rights for all our people.” PeopleWorldGrowthVoiceDemocracyGreaterRightsExampleMovementDiversityIndiaFundamentalsDemocraticAccessBillionsAllowingEngagementGovernanceFundamental Rights Author:Narendra Modi
“Just across the ocean in, say Kenya or Tanzania, a two-gender system is vital for the survival of most of the folks who live there. Men do men's work, women do women's work, and so it all gets done and the jackals can't get into the hut and eat grandpa. So, the future of the transgender movement is like the future of all human rights movements: whatever the state of things in your area now, with some work it all gets a little bit better all the time, even if it is sometimes three steps ahead and two steps back.” IfsMenHumansLittlesTwoSometimesStatesDoneThreeBitsStepsRightsMovementOceanLittle BitSurvivalAreasFolksHuman RightsGenderWorking ItTransgenderKenyaGrandpaHutsTanzaniaJackals Author:Kate Bornstein
“In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.” WorldRightsMovementCollegeAmbitionNewsRadioFocusedCivil RightsAntiwarCivil Rights Movement Author:Bob Edwards
“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
“My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.” PeopleWorldMotherParentIssuesRightsMovementColorFeministActiveCivil RightsActivistMarginalizedFeminist Movement Author:Anna Holmes
“The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, and the appalling treatment of black people during the civil rights movement. At the same time, they want to continue to defend the rights of individuals.” PeopleWantIndividualBlackRightsMovementProtectSlaveryCivil RightsMinoritiesTreatmentBlack PeopleColonialismApologizingImperialismCivil Rights Movement Author:Ayaan Hirsi Ali
“Obviously, In The Heat Of The Night was a landmark movie because the timing was perfect. It was in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement.” NightPerfectRightsMiddleMovementCivil RightsHeatTimingCivil Rights MovementLandmarks Author:Norman Jewison
“The civil rights movement didn't deal with the issue of political disenfranchisement in the Northern cities. It didn't deal with the issues that were happening in places like Detroit, where there was a deep process of deindustrialization going on. So you have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. All these things gave rise to the black power movement. The black power movement was not a separation from the civil rights movement, but a continuation of this whole process of democratization.” PeopleWarWholeYoungPoliticalProcessBlackDealsCitiesPovertyIssuesRightsMovementHappeningsProgramPoliceAngryResponseSeparationCivil RightsVietnamPolice BrutalityBrutalityCivil Rights MovementDetroitInsufficientContinuumDemocratizationBlack PowerDisenfranchisement Author:Danny Glover
“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
“In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion.” LongHas BeensWarEndsDarkRightsMovementAspectCivil RightsCivil WarDelusionChaptersCivil Rights MovementDemographicsAmerican Society Book:Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II Source: Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
“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.” CountrySocialJusticeKnownRightsMovementEthicsSocial JusticeCivil RightsOur CountryRootedCivil Rights MovementCivil Right Movement Author:Bell Hooks
“I've heard people in the Middle East tell me that the most inspiring thing for them as people struggling against dictatorship in the Middle East is the memory of the civil rights movement.” PeopleMemoriesStruggleRightsHeardMiddleMovementEastCivil RightsMiddle EastDictatorshipCivil Rights MovementMost Inspiring Author:Peter Beinart
“I think my experience at the University of Chicago, working in the civil rights movement, working in the peace movement, working with community organizations, did a lot to influence the politics that I have.” ThinkingCommunityRightsInfluenceMovementOrganizationUniversityCivil RightsChicagoCivil Rights Movement Author:Bernie Sanders
“The slogan of the American Civil Rights Movement was "We shall overcome!" Donald Trump's new campaign slogan is "We shall overcomb!"” RightsMovementTrumpOvercomingCampaignsCivil RightsSlogansCivil Rights Movement Author:Michael R. Burch
“The computer is a greater threat to the [nuclear] family than all the abortion laws and gay rights movements and pornography in the world.” WorldLawGreaterRightsMovementGayComputerThreatNuclearAbortionPornographyGay RightsNuclear FamiliesAbortion Laws Author:Alvin Toffler
“It really did take Billy Lucas's suicide to wake me up to, kind of, the damage of the success of the LGBT civil-rights movement - higher-profile LGBT people - has done to LGBT youth who are trapped out there in those shitholes. But I don't think we need Pride. I am still opposed, on philosophical grounds, to the flap of the rainbow windsock and the damage that does to us intellectually.” PeopleThinkingNeedsKindDoeStillsDoneRightsMovementYouthPrideHigherPhilosophicalSuicideCivil RightsDamageLgbtTrappedRainbowCivil Rights MovementProfile Author:Dan Savage
“I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.” PeopleThinkingHeartIdeasCertainRightsMovementEqualStartingCreatorPro LifeUnalienable Rights Author:Mike Huckabee
“Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.” PeopleMovingBlackChurchStruggleRightsMovementSouthCivil RightsBeatenCivil Rights MovementCivil Right MovementBlack Church Author:Noam Chomsky
“Because gay people were so much more visible, violence against gays was more common and reported on. But they were definitely related to each other. In the wake of AIDS, gay people felt like they had to organize, become much more active and visible. AIDS fostered a gay rights movement that made gay people more powerful and more vulnerable at the same time.” PeopleMadeFeltPowerfulCommonRightsViolenceMovementGayActiveAidsVulnerableRelatedVisibleOrganizeGay RightsGay People Author:Dale Peck
“The sad and tragic fact is that the civil rights movement, despite its honorable and courageous past, has over the years degenerated into a demagogic hustle, promoting the mindless racism they once fought against.” YearsFactsPastRightsMovementRacismCivil RightsDespiteTragicCourageousHonorablePromotingCivil Rights MovementHustleMindless Author:Thomas Sowell
“I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.” NeedsOrderRightsMovementWomens Rights Author:Zainab Salbi
“I think one of the tragedies of the civil rights movement was because the civil rights movement became so court-focused, I think that there was a tendency to lose track of the political and community organizing, and activities on the ground, that are able to put together the actual coalitions of power throughout which you bring about redistributive change. And in some ways, we still suffer from that.” ThinkingWayStillsAbleTogetherPoliticalSufferingCommunityLosesRightsMovementActivityTragedyCourtTrackFocusedTendenciesCivil RightsCivil Rights MovementCoalitionsCommunity Organizing Author:Barack Obama
“You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantTwoNationsNumbersCasesRightsMovementGayDeserveAbsolutesShamePro LifeBasic RightsTravesty Author:Jon Stewart
“There are unprecedented numbers of movements for human rights and freedoms. But the dominant worldviews in academia, like materialism and naturalism, deny the reality of freedom, reducing humans to robots. So where does the concept of human rights come from?” HumansDoeRealityNumbersRightsMovementConceptsHuman RightsDenyMaterialismDominantRobotsReducingWorldviewUnprecedentedAcademiaNaturalismRights And Freedoms Author:Nancy Pearcey
“Now liberals compare their every riot, every traffic blockage, every Starbucks-window-smashing street protest to the civil rights movement -- which was only necessary because of them.” RightsStreetsMovementWindowCivil RightsCompareProtestTrafficRiotCivil Rights MovementStarbucksSmashingBlockage Author:Ann Coulter
“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.” StillsPoliticalMotherActorsFatherRightsMovementInvolvedUnionsFolksSingersCivil RightsPolitical Movements Author:Vicki Sue Robinson
“When I speak to students about the Civil Rights Movement, I say that it is impossible to stop a determined movement that is captivating the American consciousness. I think the candidacy of Sen. Obama represents the beginning of a new movement in American political history that began in the hearts and minds of the people of this nation. And I want to be on the side of the people, on the side of the spirit of history.” PeopleThinkingWantMindHeartPoliticalSpiritSpeakNationsSidesConsciousnessRightsImpossibleMovementStudentsDeterminedCivil RightsHeart And MindCivil Rights MovementCaptivatingPolitical HistoryCandidacy Author:John Lewis
“One of the most important parts of the civil rights movement that people don't talk about was these mass meetings. It's like "Movement Church." It's a combination of the music of the movement and the church. Those mass meetings are where people got the energy to go on to the next day.” PeopleImportantNextEnergyChurchRightsMovementGoes OnMassMeetingsCivil RightsCombinationNext DayCivil Rights Movement Author:Stanley Nelson Jr.
“Silver rights aren't as dramatic and captivating as civil rights. The movement isn't good TV and it's boring or inaccessible to many people. The forums were created to spread awareness, dialogue, and community to forge new partnerships and ideas.” PeopleIdeasCommunityRightsAwarenessMovementTvsBoringSpreadDialogueCivil RightsDramaticSilverPartnershipForumsInaccessibleCaptivating Author:John Hope Bryant
“Even if you look at Iran, those campaigners for human rights there, they don't want to have anything to do with America, because they are afraid that having American support will be the kiss of death for their movement. And that's really tragic.” IfsWantHumansLooksAmericaSupportRightsMovementKissingHuman RightsTragicIranKiss Of Death Author:Yaroslav Trofimov
“I had a fantasy as a child that I might be a writer someday. I always thought that meant you went to New York or Paris. But after that intense summer, I never thought that I wanted to live any place but Chicago. It also made me see what the stakes were in the civil rights movement. And it made me see what real hatred was like and the forms that it took. But it also made me understand how powerless ordinary people feel in their lives.” PeopleFeelsChildrenMadeRealMightWantedFormFantasyRightsNew YorkMovementSummerOrdinaryHatredIntenseCivil RightsParisSomedayChicagoStakesPowerlessOrdinary PeopleCivil Rights Movement Author:Sara Paretsky
“The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.” NextCommunityStepsRightsMovementCivil RightsImmigrantsCivil Rights MovementPartisansNext StepsPartisan Politics Author:Luis Gutierrez
“Yet civil rights issues are very much on the front burner in South Carolina between the Black Lives Matter movement and police shootings.” MatterBlackIssuesRightsFrontsMovementPoliceSouthCivil RightsShootingBlack Lives MatterCarolinaSouth CarolinaBlack Lives Author:Ari Shapiro
“It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.” PeopleFirstsTwoDreamRightsMovementMonthsKingsSpeechMajorsTownsCivil RightsCrucialLutherJuneAvenuesCivil Rights MovementTwo MonthsI Have A Dream Speech Author:David Maraniss
“Detroit was an exaggeration of what was going on across the country. You could see the divisions, even within the Civil Rights Movement of that period. At the same time that Martin Luther King was talking about his dream, Malcolm X gave his most famous address in Detroit during that same period, "The Message To The Grass Roots," dismissing the notion of integration.” CountryDreamTalkingRightsMovementKingsPeriodsMessagesRootsNotionCivil RightsGrassAddressesDivisionIntegrationLutherCivil Rights MovementExaggerationDetroit Author:David Maraniss
“Nina Simone was a gifted and prolific singer, songwriter and pianist who became a powerful presence in the civil rights movement and paid a professional price for it. Behind the scenes, she struggled in a fractious, sometimes violent relationship with her husband and manager and with mental health issues that strained other relationships, including with her only daughter.” SometimesPowerfulBehindsIssuesRightsMovementSceneHusbandDaughterPaidMental HealthIncludingSingersViolentCivil RightsManagersSongwritersGiftedCivil Rights MovementSinger SongwritersPianistBehind The ScenesNinaHealth IssuesOnly Daughter Author:Michel Martin
“We often forget that the women's rights movement actually grew out of the abolition movement. It is really within abolitionism that many of the leading women's rights advocates gained experience as organizers and lecturers.” ForgetRightsMovementGrewWomens RightsAbolitionLecturerOrganizer Author:Manisha Sinha
“I`ve never been a passive political supporter. My grandmother, Betty Kleitz , god bless her soul, was from Tuskegee, Alabama, took parts in the civil rights movement and after that became of course like a lot of blacks in the South a staunch Democrat.” SoulPoliticalCoursesRightsMovementDemocratSouthCivil RightsGrandmotherBlessPassiveSupporterMy GrandmotherCivil Rights MovementGod BlessAlabama Author:Killer Mike
“Everything African-Americans - every freedom they have obtained - came from Republicans, not Democrats. All the way back to the Emancipation Proclamation, to the Civil Rights movement. Civil Rights legislation was passed by a Republican Congress.” WayRightsMovementRepublicanDemocratCongressCivil RightsAfrican AmericanLegislationCivil Rights MovementEmancipationProclamationEmancipation Proclamation Author:Rafael Cruz
“One of the movements we have developed is to say that, just as intellectual property rights protect the inventions of individuals, common rights are needed to protect the common intellectual heritage of indigenous peoples. These are rights that are recognized through the Convention on Biological Diversity. We are working to make sure that they become foundations of our jurisprudence.” IndividualCommonRightsMovementNeededProtectDiversityIntellectualFoundationPropertyInventionHeritageConventionsIndigenousProperty RightsIntellectual PropertyIndigenous PeopleJurisprudence Author:Vandana Shiva
“We have to build movements in the face of trade retaliation on the basis of people's democratic rights, on the basis of an ancient heritage of collective innovation. We work from the grassroots all the way to the national government and the World Trade Organization. It basically means being very multidimensional in our campaigns. And that is where part of the fun is. It involves both resistance and creativity. It involves constructive action, while at the same time saying "no."” PeopleWorldWayMeanGovernmentActionFacesFunCreativityRightsMovementOrganizationBasesInnovationTradeDemocraticAncientCampaignsResistanceCollectivesHeritageConstructiveSaying NoWorld TradeGrassrootsRetaliationDemocratic RightsWorld Trade Organization Author:Vandana Shiva
“We have the history of slavery or inequality to women, and now the civil rights movement of the 21st century is the struggle for equality for the gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people. And I think it's important for Americans to know about the times that we failed.” PeopleThinkingKnowsImportantStruggleRightsCenturyMovementGaySlaveryCivil RightsInequality21st CenturyTransgenderCivil Rights Movement Author:George Takei
“What is needed in the world today is a Civil Rights Movement for the Soul, freeing humanity at last from the oppression of its belief in a violent, angry, and vindictive God.” WorldSoulTodayLastsHumanityBeliefRightsMovementNeededAngryViolentCivil RightsOppressionWorld TodayCivil Rights MovementVindictive Author:Neale Donald Walsch
“There is an innocence or purity that we see in renewals and in the Mennonite church and a new an invigorated civil rights movement.” ChurchRightsMovementCivil RightsInnocencePurityRenewalCivil Rights Movement Author:Shane Claiborne
“There was a resistance movement in the white community, and there was a determined civil rights movement by our neighbors and friends in the African-American community. They had right on their side. They conducted themselves in high standards, with courage and determination, and they were victorious. They overcame.” SidesCommunityWhiteRightsMovementStandardsDeterminationDeterminedNeighborResistanceCivil RightsAfrican AmericanCivil Rights MovementHigh StandardsCourage And DeterminationNeighbors And Friends Author:Jeff Sessions
“The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice their lives to stay with it. They didn't expect a political process to respond to them. They made the political process respond to them. To say "It's so bad I won't bother" is to give up on your children and give up on your future.” PeopleGivingLooksChildrenMadeAblePoliticalProcessRightsImpossibleSacrificeAchieveMovementWillingGiving UpOrdinaryOur ChildrenCivil RightsBotherYour ChildrenOur FutureOrdinary PeopleYour FutureCivil Rights Movement Author:Marian Wright Edelman
“Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.” ShouldHardRightsMovementHard WorkShould HaveCreditCivil RightsDirtyUnbelievableCivil Rights MovementDirty Work Author:John Lewis
“Maybe, just maybe, there should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story. The pain, the hurt. They raised their children. Some were working as maids, but when they left those kitchens, those homes, they made it to the mass meetings. And they put their bodies on the lines, also.” ShouldChildrenMadeStoriesHomeBodyPainLeftHurtLinesNovelRightsMovementMassMeetingsRaisedCivil RightsMade ItKitchenContributionGraphicCivil Rights MovementMaidsGraphic Novels Author:John Lewis
“Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!” DreamSchoolKnowingRightsMovementStudentsKingsHigh SchoolNineCivil RightsParksGraduatesLutherCivil Rights MovementRosaGraduating High School Author:Andrew Aydin