100 Quotes About Civil-rights-movement

The Black Power movement—or what we referred to at the time as the Black liberation movement...was a response to what were perceived as limitations of the civil rights movement: we not only needed toclaim legal rights within the existing society but also to demand substantive rights—in jobs, housing, health care, education, et cetera.

Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.

I loved the land that surrounded me but hated the history that haunted that land.

But courage was growing in me too. Little by little it was getting harder and harder for me not to speak out.

It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man can raise cattle, and I'm going to do that someday. There are lakes where a man can sink a hook and fight bass. There is room here for my children to play, and grow, and become good citizens...

I sat there listening to "We Shall Overcome," looking out of the window at the passing Mississippi landscape.

Children holding hands, walking with the wind. That is America to me- not just the movement for civil rights, but the endless struggle to respond with decency, dignity, and a sense of brotherhood to all the challenges that face us as a nation, as a whole.

There was only one justification for the use of troops; to uphold the law. Though Faubus denied it, I, as President of the United States, now had that justification and the clear obligation to act ... the 101st Airborne Division, from nearby Fort Campbell, Kentucky, arrived in Little Rock; another five hundred moved in later the same day.

If you think the civil rights movement is over, you're the one who's out of touch, not me.