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By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader. ↗

— Constance Baker Motley

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The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved. ↗

— John Marshall Harlan

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The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about. ↗

— John Hume

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There are those who say to you - we are rushing this issue of civil rights. I say we are 172 years late. ↗

— Hubert H. Humphrey

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My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well. ↗

— Janis Ian

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Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities. ↗

— Mary Frances Berry

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It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death. ↗

— Elijah Cummings

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I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

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If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American - our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. ↗

— Jon Stewart

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If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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