100 Quotes About Civil-rights-movement
- Author Endesha Ida Mae Holland
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I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up.
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- Author DaShanne Stokes
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Privilege is when you contribute to the oppression of others and then claim that you are the one being discriminated against.
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- Author DaShanne Stokes
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Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.
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- Author DaShanne Stokes
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You're not under attack when others gain rights and privileges you've always had.
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- Author Douglas A. Blackmon
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Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.
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- Author Douglas A. Blackmon
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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.
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- Author Andrew Aydin John Lewis
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It tends to be forgotten, among the moments of drama and violence, just how many days of uneventful protest took place outside the courtrooms and jails. No one was let into the courthouse. No one was registered to vote. But the line was drawn.
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- Author Andrew Aydin John Lewis
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Please tell the attorney general that we've been cooling off for 350 years -- if we cool off any more, we will be in a deep freeze.
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- Author Howard Thurman
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Do not be silent; there is no limit to the power that may be released through you.
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