Don Lemon Quotes

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

Lyndon Johnson used to call his chauffer “Boy,” but he passed the greatest Civil Rights bill in the history of the company.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement.

I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.

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

We examine and highlight the history of the African descendants in America, and know that each and every one of us has come this far because of our faith in this country.

One thing 'not right' on the 50th anniversary of the Selma marches is the sad fact that the Edmund Pettus Bridge hasn't been renamed the John Lewis Bridge.

The history of the African American community is one of enduring, relentless struggle with a vision of accepting nothing less than full social and economic equality.

Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans.

We have a fabulous civil rights history here in Birmingham.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

I was stunned to find out there had never been a serious, scholarly biography ever written on Rosa Parks.

African American history is really American history because African Americans really helped build this country.

The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the status of African Americans and the sources of improvement in that status.

I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

Well, I've been politically involved for a really long time. Growing up in the segregated South, it was a very painful experience for me to live through the open racism of the time.

Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.

We must never forget that Black History is American History. The achievements of African Americans have contributed to our nation's greatness.

The Klan had used fear, intimidation and murder to brutally oppress over African-Americans who sought justice and equality and it sought to respond to the young workers of the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the same way.

I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.

Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

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