There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.
Few whites are ready to actively promote civil rights for blacks.
For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.
If Martin Luther King came back, he'd say we need another civil rights movement built on class not race.
When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.
Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
When the civil rights battle was won, all the Jews and hippies and artists were middle class white people and all the blacks were still poor. Materially, not much changed.
In the time when my mother began standing up against prejudice and racism, the vast majority of white Americans rarely thought about civil rights.
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus.
It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it.