100 Quotes About Civil-rights-movement
- Author Tariq Ali
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It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.
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- Author Joe Biden
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Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.
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- Author Carole Boston Weatherford
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I was so hungry to learn. My mother drilled this into me. When you read,she said, you know--and you can help yourself and others.
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- Author Carole Boston Weatherford
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I was so hungry to learn. My mother drilled this into me. When you read, she said, you know--and you can help yourself and others.
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- Author Andrew Aydin John Lewis
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Where is OUR party?! Where is the political party that will make it UNNECESSARY to march on Washington?!
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- Author Septima Poinsette Clark
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The greatest evil in our country today is...ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.
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- Author DaShanne Stokes
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If you'd combat bigotry, use honest language and call things out for what they really are.
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- Author John Lewis
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[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.
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- Author Timothy B. Tyson
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The self-congratulatory popular account insists that Dr. King called on the nation to fully accept its own creed, and the walls came a-tumbling down. This conventional narrative is soothing, moving, and politically acceptable, and has only the disadvantage of bearing no resemblance to what actually happened.
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