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Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life. ↗

— Andrew Young

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We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama. ↗

— Rachel Griffiths

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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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When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country. ↗

— Bruce Hornsby

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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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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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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody. ↗

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

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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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