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At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement.


Bernice Johnson Reagon


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I came out of the Civil Rights Movement, and I had a different kind of focus than most people who have just the academic background as their primary training experience.


Bernice Johnson Reagon


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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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I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.


Caroline Kennedy


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Marriage is sacred and protected and has nothing to do with violating our civil rights.


Jack Kingston


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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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It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.


Bobby Scott


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Rosa Parks was a woman of strength, conviction, and morality. Her action on December 1, 1955, to defy the law made her a leading figure in our nation's civil rights history.


John Shimkus


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We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.


Clarence Thomas


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Each state, so that it does not abridge the great fundamental rights belonging, under the Constitution, to all citizens, may grant or withhold such civil rights as it pleases; all that is required is that, in this respect, its laws shall be impartial.


Lyman Trumbull


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