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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.

The sad truth is that the civil rights movement cannot be reborn until we identify the causes of black suffering, some of them self-inflicted. Why can't black leaders organize rallies around responsible sexuality, birth within marriage, parents reading to their children and students staying in school and doing homework?

When President Kennedy was elected, many black Americans, like so many Americans, were captivated by his youth and energy and promise and were especially hopeful that he might move the country in a new direction on civil rights.

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.

President Obama became our first African American president, and for me, it is the stuff of which dreams are made.

The dream was not to put one black family in the White House, the dream was to make everything equal in everybody's house.

I don't say that the supposed Civil Rights development is a myth, but it's a matter of dealing with reality. It's purely peripheral and, in many cases, it's just a facade.

We can revolutionize the attitude of inner city brown and black kids to learning. We need a civil rights movement within the African-American community.

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