The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.
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The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.
Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them enforced.
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.
Respectfully, the civil rights movement for people with disabilities is modeled on the African American civil rights movement. I'm old enough to remember 1964. I was a junior in high school.
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
Covering the civil-rights movement was a mind- and eye-opener for me. Houston was a segregated society, as was Texas as a whole - some of it by law, a lot of it by fear and tradition. But there was no violence where I lived, and if there was hate, it was either concealed from me or I just didn't recognize it.
It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.
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