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I’ve been passionate about challenging bigotry and intolerance throughout my life. As a teenager in the UK, I marched against the fascist National Front and to abolish apartheid. As an undergraduate, I traveled around America and wrote my thesis about the civil rights movement.

– Sacha Baron Cohen

I don’t think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

– Henry Louis Gates

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

– Henry Rollins

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

If Martin Luther King came back, he’d say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.

– Henry Louis Gates

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

– Henry Rollins

Everyone puts all of the advances that we’ve made on Dr. King, but there’s a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.

– Ilyasah Shabazz

I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders.

– John Lewis

The essence of Ferguson is the spirit of the people, and I’m so happy to see the spirit because I haven’t seen it like that since the Civil Rights Movement.

– Jim Brown

I have very mixed feelings about Jesse Jackson. He’s very good about labor, and human and civil rights issues, but not so good on cultural issues.

– Jello Biafra

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

– Jack Kingston

A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

– Ivan Allen

You can’t put civil rights on the ballot.

– Jesse Ventura

He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.

– Jackie Kennedy

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

– Joe Biden

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

– Joseph Stiglitz

My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

– Janine di Giovanni

I am a Minnesotan, and not just because I root for the Vikings and the Twins. I like the Minnesota-nice sensibility. I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.

– Al Franken

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

– Al Franken

I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery.

– Charles B. Rangel

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

– Bryan Cranston

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

– Cory Booker

I’m trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.

– Adam Lambert

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

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

– Bobby Scott

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

– David Price

Our government just won’t enforce civil rights laws. The laws will be ignored.

– Major Owens

I agree that income disparity is the great issue of our time. It is even broader and more difficult than the civil rights issues of the 1960s. The ’99 percent’ is not just a slogan. The disparity in income has left the middle class with lowered, not rising, income, and the poor unable to reach the middle class.

– Eleanor Holmes Norton

I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, ‘Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.’

– Doris Kearns Goodwin

Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.

– Derrick Bell

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