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.
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In reality, civil rights are more important than national rights. They're the content, the day-to-day: work, life. But people are sensitive to national rights.
Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.
Civil rights happened because youth got involved. The youth stood up and helped to break the pattern that their parents had got accustomed to living. The next generation has to take that stand for whatever it is, socially, that they are involved in.
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.
Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution.