100 Quotes About Civil-rights-movement

The civil rights movement was very successful in what it achieved: the legal eradication of racism and the dismantling of the apparatus of segregation. This happened and we should not underestimate its importance. The problem is that it is often assumed that the eradication of the legal apparatus is equivalent to the abolition of racism. But racism persists in a framework that is far more expansive, far vaster than the legal framework.

Of all weapons, love is the most deadly and devastating, and few there be who dare trust their fate in its hands.

Simply put: because nonviolence worked so well as a tactic for effecting change and was demonstrably improving their lives, some black people chose to use weapons to defend the nonviolent Freedom Movement.

It is an extraordinary achievement to be trapped in the dungeon of color and to dare to shake down its walls and to step out of it, leaving the jailhouse keeper in the rubble

Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power, anxieties are created.

malcolm pimpedmalcolm did fraudmalcolm stolemalcolm did so many things,but that wasn’t the end of the storyit doesn’t have to end this way for you eitherbc malcolm x spoke at oxford union,1964&this was a man who didn’t even go to universityuniversity students were the audience to man who didn’t finish high schoolhe stood where presidents&prime ministers stood

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

When Black women stand up— as they did during the Montgomery Bus Boycott—as they did during the Black liberation era, earth-shaking changes occur.

The question of color was but another detail, somewhere between being six feet tall and being six feet under.