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Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.

Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life.

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

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!

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.

When I wrote the song, The Way It Is, I wanted to move people to take a stand on civil rights in this country.

Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you have an equal right to justice - that is the essence. And if it's not the essence, then we've been sold a pack of lies. The essence is everyone deserves a shot - the content of character, not the color of skin.

Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.