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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.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

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

Today's global justice movement may be the biggest, most diverse and energetic in history.

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

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

You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I really had a great appreciation for the struggle that took place.

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

Another essential to a universal and durable peace is social justice.

Martin Luther King dedicated his life to love and to justice between fellow human beings. He died in the cause of that effort.