Rashida Tlaib Quotes

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

I'm old enough to have lived through a time when Martin Luther King Jr., Medgar Evers, Viola Liuzzo, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and others died so people of color could vote.

Even after facing jail, Martin Luther King, Jr. courageously and boldly spoke out against racial inequality.

Martin Luther King told American Blacks not to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

In the 1950s, the black men and women and their white allies who fought for civil rights and basic human dignity could look to the federal government. If the racist sheriff and his troops beat them with batons or sprayed them and their children with water cannons, the attorney general would act.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

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

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.

I vividly remember the summer of 1964 with its voter registration drives, boiling racial tensions, and the erupting awareness of the cruelty of racism. I was never the same after that summer.

It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.

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.

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

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

The legal difference between the sit-ins and the Freedom Riders was significant.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

I saw my father march with Martin Luther King