“I don't think there are any pure Africans of the African Americans, but the African part of our history was pretty much taken away from us during slavery, so the 60s gave us a chance, because of the civil rights movement, to kind of re-examine and make some sort of formal connection to our African-ness.” ThinkingKindChanceTakenRightsMovementPureConnectionsSlaveryCivil RightsAfrican AmericanFormalCivil Rights Movement Author:Herbie Hancock
“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
“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
“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
“People are very comfortable when race relations get looked at retrospectively. Slavery, the civil rights movement, etc.” PeopleRaceRightsMovementComfortableRelationSlaveryCivil RightsEtcRace RelationsCivil Rights Movement Author:Paul Beatty
“It is only with the rise of the Civil Rights Movement that you begin to see different examinations of not only Reconstruction but slavery itself, and there is a lesson to be drawn here about how the times influence the writing of history, something that we should never forget.” ShouldWritingDifferentForgetRightsInfluenceMovementLessonsSlaveryCivil RightsNever ForgetExaminationCivil Rights MovementReconstruction Author:Gerald Horne
“For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a gross betrayal of the civil rights principles of our historic struggle from slavery to the final guarantee of constitutional rights to all Americans. Indeed, it was practices like those of the University of Michigan, but against blacks, that were the focal point of much of the civil rights movement.” BlackWhitePrinciplesPracticeSupportStruggleRightsMovementAmountPoliticianOrganizationSlaveryFinalsUniversityBetrayalCivil RightsGuaranteesRacistHistoricGrossCivil Rights MovementMichiganConstitutional RightsFocal PointUniversity Of Michigan Author:Walter E. Williams