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For a black male, the sound of the blues is pre-Civil Rights. It's oppression.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

I've always hated oppression.

Too often, systems of oppression turn those who are the targets of the oppression against one another.

When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

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

To hold a people in oppression you have to convince them first that they are supposed to be oppressed.

Civil rights is unfinished business. Make it your business.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.