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"When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement."
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"The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody."
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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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"Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today."
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"Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson."
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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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"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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"I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights."
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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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"I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement."
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"One of the biggest things I understood in a program like that was that it allowed more young African American scholars to do field research in the Caribbean and in Africa than had ever happened before in the history of the country and since."
History
"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."
Civil rights
"Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are."
Life
"The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life."
Life
"So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than the white teachers."
Teachers
"The Smithsonian Festival of American Folklife, actually, was an effort to put something on the mall in Washington so American tourists could walk through America, and in their minds everything on the mall would be American."
America
"At the same time all this was happening, there was a folk song revival movement goingon, so the commercial music industry was actually changed by the Civil Rights Movement."
Music
"And I used to think that proof that I had religion was whether I knew how to sing all of the songs."
Religion
"Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic."
Experience
"Personally I discovered that you could go through the academy as a young scholar, come out, and almost immediately have an impact on the academic environment."
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