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What we found was that people had documented the civil rights movement basically through newspaper clippings and scrapbooks.


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What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.
DAVID PRICE I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.
DANNY GLOVER The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
SAMMY DAVIS, JR. As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a ...
JAMES T. WALSH In the South, prior to the Civil Rights movement and the 1964 Civil Rights Act, democracy was the ru...
NEAL BOORTZ Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS Terry Anderson was held six years in a hole in Beirut. He tried to get Arab newspaper clippings from...
PATRICK MOYNIHAN It's a cliche to say she was the mother of the civil rights movement, but she was.
JULIAN BOND It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about...
ADAM COHEN Young people don't know what it feels like to be in those kinds of struggles, ... I mean, they've go...
LENNOX YEARWOOD 1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to ge...
JOHN LEWIS When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON I feel outraged that many years after the civil-rights movement, we are still living with racial pro...
IRENE DYMKAR There were a couple of men in town who had extensive records, Roger Jarvais and Joe Penley. People w...
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BELL HOOKS A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil ...
STEVEN VAN ZANDT When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
WADADA LEO SMITH People later sent me hours of video and newspaper clippings of it, but I haven't look at them since....
LEE HUNTER In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, ...
BOB EDWARDS The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
FULTON JOHN SHEEN The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.
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ERICA MERCKER The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
ANDREW YOUNG The Voting Rights Act was really the whole core of the civil rights movement. It made a tremendous i...
CHARLES MATHIAS Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've ...
GARY BAUER At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the comm...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the...
NOAM CHOMSKY If [King ] had not reacted with nonviolence and, more importantly, caused everyone else to react tha...
MIKE BEEBE It was one of the main gripes of the early civil rights movement and the NAACP, ... It was the major...
BRUCE TYLER Back in 1970 we used to say that politics was the new cutting edge of the civil rights movement. Thi...
EDDIE WILLIAMS I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave sc...
BERNICE JOHNSON REAGON We're here celebrating a new civil rights movement, and it's headed up by Latinos.
DOLORES HUERTA In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helpin...
ALICE WALKER The evolution of national unity and equal rights is all about what America represents as a nation to...
PATRICK MENDIS Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people w...
ILYASAH SHABAZZ At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war ...
ARLO GUTHRIE The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln
JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in ...
DAN WAKEFIELD While growing up, on the news every night was the war in Vietnam and the Civil Rights movement. We w...
EUGENE DIAL In the '60s, when I was growing up, one of the great elements of American culture was the protes...
GEORGE CLOONEY This is a modern-day civil rights movement. Political leaders need to understand the importance of t...
PARTHA BANERJEE There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesso...
ANDREW YOUNG This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without q doubt.
JACKIE SPEIER This is probably the most profound civil rights movement of our generation, without a doubt.
JACKIE SPEIER It was a particularly interesting and exciting time, and the European political and artistic establi...
ARCHIE SHEPP There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liber...
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HENRY LOUIS GATES I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do h...
CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT Civil rights in reverse is what I call it. What about our civil rights?
DANIEL ORTEGA I never thought I'd see the day that I would see white folks as frightened, or more so, than bla...
DICK GREGORY The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas...
CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN The rise of African nations concurrent with the spread of the Nation of Islam and the civil rights m...
JOHN HENRIK CLARKE It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.
TARIQ ALI Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird...
JOHN LEWIS The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw ...
JOHN LEWIS That story was something I've never had occasion to discuss publicly, ... I assigned it because I wa...
HOWELL RAINES We were stunned by the outpouring for the rally. It's an emerging civil rights movement. We're at a ...
BILL VANDENBERG He was the prominent figure of the civil rights movement, promoting diversity not just for African-A...
COLIN JONES Students will be most helpful to this civil rights movement when they have an education.
DAVID LUJAN Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense...
NATASHA TRETHEWEY My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the femin...
JUSTIN SANE If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class n...
HENRY LOUIS GATES We'll celebrate the black cowboy's role in settling the West as well as the modern civil rights move...
KATI ANDERSON I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a comm...
RUSSELL SIMMONS Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his ...
ANGELA DAVIS What ultimately happens is that they become the parents of what we know of as the civil rights movem...
JAMES GARCIA I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represente...
CAROL MOSELEY BRAUN We have documented the use of torture and mistreatment, widespread throughout the world. We have doc...
WILLIAM SCHULZ I think every high school student who was alert during the early '60s got very embittered by the...
P. J. O'ROURKE We finessed those a little to what Alfred had documented and what the curator had listed.
STACEY BALSLEY My parents were very active in the Civil Rights Movement. My father was a Student Nonviolent Coordin...
YAYA DACOSTA I guess it's the curse of our generation, having to put aside our lives to do the right thing.
ALLAN DARE PEARCE Well, it's the last step of the civil rights movement: You know, wrap your hands around some money, ...
RUSSELL SIMMONS He was resolute in his leadership, ... He always said civil rights is civil rights.
MARK LENO Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very ...
AHMET ERTEGUN Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists...
D'ANGELO The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be r...
JIM COSTA The liberal psyche wants to protect minorities, to apologize for imperialism, colonialism, slavery, ...
AYAAN HIRSI ALI What gets lost is that the Republican Party has always been the party of civil rights and voting rig...
RAND PAUL Immigration is the No. 2 issue after civil rights. Civil rights right now is what's keeping people f...
OSAMA SIBLANI If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this co...
KINKY FRIEDMAN One individual can begin a movement that turns the tide of history. Martin Luther King in the civil ...
JACK CANFIELD The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther K...
BARBARA EHRENREICH The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War...
MICHAEL MOORE The Chicano movement was a direct result of the Black civil rights movement, and all of us were insp...
ALFREDO GUTIERREZ I agree that Dr. King contributed to civil rights. What I don't agree with is that the only way you ...
SCOTT CASE managers and supervisors found responsible for violating civil rights or whistleblower protection la...
MICHAEL CHERTOFF In 1962, when I was 19, I visited India. With introductions from people involved in the U.S. civil r...
BILL DRAYTON A whole community starts on that road to fully realizing its own American citizenship or its rights ...
JAMES GARCIA The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sough...
CHARLES B. RANGEL By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America d...
BILL COSBY I remember the (black) civil rights struggle, when we had people like Harry Belafonte coming forth a...
ALEX NOGALES We in New York chose effective law enforcement and disregarded the respect for civil rights and civi...
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KAREN BLIXEN If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows ...
KAREN BLIXEN I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
KAREN BLACK I've been invited to do a trio with a fantastic jazz guitarist and a harmonica player.
KAREN BLACK If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believ...
KAREN BLACK If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I c...
KAREN BLACK I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
KAREN BLACK I am the least intimidating person. I think I would have done better in my career if I were a little...
KAREN BLACK I love what I do, so it's not tiring. If I worked at a computer or drove a truck, I'd be dea...
KAREN BLACK I love playing strong women, even if they're nuts.
KAREN BLACK If you can write it, I can be it.
KAREN BLACK When I wrote my stories in elementary school, I signed them all 'Karen E. Bender' with the s...
KAREN BENDER You sit at your computer for hours, then slave away at your job that you may or may not like. You do...
KAREN BENDER At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in peop...
KAREN BENDER Writing about a person whose struggle you wish you could solve is an act of compassion and also, fra...
KAREN BENDER My second novel began after my family moved from New York City to North Carolina, and I watched my s...
KAREN BENDER When I was 19 and dropped out of college for several months, I lived for some time with my grandmoth...
KAREN BENDER Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
KAREN BENDER