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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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Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today. ↗

— David Harris

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During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement. ↗

— Joe Biden

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The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves. ↗

— Shirley Chisholm

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I believe public education is the new civil rights battle and I support charter schools. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

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The bill neither confers nor abridges the rights of anyone but simply declares that in civil rights there shall be equality among all classes of citizens and that all alike shall be subject to the same punishment. ↗

— Lyman Trumbull

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The Civil Rights for Musicians Act is about economic justice for African American artists. It's about what's right. And it's about time. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

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

— Danny Glover

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

— Constance Baker Motley

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