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"There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites."
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"The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved."
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"There are severe limitations on civil rights. In the international arena, Iran is turning into an isolated country, and the international community is becoming more hostile toward it."
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"Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today."
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"I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights."
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"There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites."
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"I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement."
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"I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961."
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"The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody."
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"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."
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"When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement."
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"Now we maintain that we cannot be afford to be concerned about 6 percent of the children in this country, black children, who you allow to come into white schools. We have 94 percent who still live in shacks. We are going to be concerned about those 94 percent."
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"I knew that I could vote and that that wasn't a privilege; it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived."
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"Integration is a man's ability to want to move in there by himself. If someone wants to live in a white neighborhood and he is black, that is his choice. It should be his rights. It is not because white people will not allow him."
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"Now, then, in order to understand white supremacy we must dismiss the fallacious notion that white people can give anybody their freedom."
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"No man can given anybody his freedom."
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"We had no more courage than Harriet Tubman or Marcus Garvey had in their times. We just had a more vulnerable enemy."
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"The philosophers Camus and Sartre raise the question whether or not a man can condemn himself."
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"I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people."
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"We were aware of the fact that death walks hand in hand with struggle."
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"It is a call for black people in this country to unite, to recognize their heritage, to build a sense of community. It is a call for black people to define their own goals, to lead their own organizations."
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