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.
I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than black folks was during the civil rights movement when we was in Mississippi.
In my lifetime, we have lost a President, a Civil Rights leader and a Presidential candidate - all to gun violence.
I had advocated the establishment of a Negro industrial commission. I had gestured against the growth of monopoly power. I had introduced a few civil rights bills.
Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!
Apple is to the United States government what Clarence Thomas was to the civil rights coalition. How dare you get this big sidestepping us.
When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.
There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late.
I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights.
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
Statehood for the District of Columbia is the most important civil rights and social justice issue in America today.
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.
Tillie: Civil rights is one thing. This here is somethin' else.
Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
Rosa Parks will be remembered for her lasting contributions to society. Her legacy lives on in the continued struggle for civil rights around the world. She will be missed.
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.
Michael Jackson is an accidental civil rights leader - an accidental pioneer. He broke ground and barriers in so many different realms in artistry, in pictures, in movies, in music, you name it.
A little less complaint and whining, and a little more dogged work and manly striving, would do us more credit than a thousand civil rights bills.
Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.
