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I got out of the Army - in my world - I came to New York, for instance, when the civil rights movement was just beginning, and that created a certain energy, a certain rumble, a certain impetus for black actors. ↗

— James Earl Jones

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My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh. ↗

— Justin Sane

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The successes of the LGBT civil rights movement and the more prominent role openly gay people are playing in the public eye has actually turned up the temperature in middle schools and high schools for queer kids. ↗

— Dan Savage

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I, like many members of my generation, was concerned with segregation and the repeated violation of civil rights. ↗

— Joseph Stiglitz

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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century. ↗

— Ralph Neas

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All civil rights and the right to hold office were to be extended to persons of any Christian denomination. ↗

— Roger Sherman

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When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

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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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I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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The most ironic outcome of the black Civil Rights movement has been the creation of a new black middle class which is increasingly separate from the black underclass. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

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