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Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking. ↗

— James L. Farmer, Jr.

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There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites. ↗

— Stokely Carmichael

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The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

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I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. ↗

— David Talbot

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I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement. ↗

— Danny Glover

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That's what he was saying, the civil rights movement - judge me for my character, not how black my skin is, not how yellow my skin is, how short I am, how tall or fat or thin; It's by my character. ↗

— Pam Grier

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Eyes is the attempt to tell the story of the Civil Rights movement and to create an emotional, intellectual constituency. But what do you do after that? The black community doesn't have institutions that pick up such moments and preserve them. ↗

— Henry Hampton

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The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic. ↗

— Bell Hooks

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The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst. ↗

— Jim Costa

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I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement. ↗

— Russell Simmons

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