{"quotes":[{"text":"Tolerance of intolerance enables oppression.","author":"DaShanne Stokes","tags":["bias","biases","civil-rights","civil-rights-movement","civil-rights","discriminating","discrimination","discrimination","human-rights","human-rights-violations","intolerance","intolerance","lgbt","lgbt-rights","lgbtq","lgbtqia","oppression","oppression","prejudice","prejudices","privilege","privileged","privileges","race","racism","racist","rights","tolerance","tolerance"],"id":16927,"author_id":"DaShanne+Stokes"},{"text":"A freedom given up is not so easily regained.","author":"Rivera Sun","tags":["america","civil-liberty","civil-rights-movement","constitution","constitutional-rights","freedom","freedom-of-expression","freedom-of-speech","freedom-of-the-press","freedom-of-thought","novels"],"id":31624,"author_id":"Rivera+Sun"},{"text":"[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.","author":"John Lewis","tags":["black","civil-rights","civil-rights-movement","discrimination","revolt","revolution","segregation","traditional"],"id":31950,"author_id":"John+Lewis"},{"text":"The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["activism","civil-rights-movement","creativity"],"id":43886,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...They did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay.","author":"Martin Luther King Jr.","tags":["civil-rights","civil-rights-movement","history","martin-luther-king-jr","racism","racism-in-america","segregation","timing"],"id":46042,"author_id":"Martin+Luther+King+Jr."},{"text":"Silence is for fools. Communication is for leaders. Justice is for those brave enough to not stand another moment dealing with people that feel the solution to any problem is through cold indifference because of their lack of courage and insecurities.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["bias","brilliant-minds","civil-rights","civil-rights-movement","communicators","discrimination","diversity","freedom-from-fear","humanity","justice","leaders","leadership","learn","light-vs-darkness","mental-health-bias","orators","peace-makers","problem-solvers","silence","social-issues","speakers","stayingpositiveu-com","teachers","world-issues"],"id":46989,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"Segregation in the American South was bankrolled by the wealthy eugenicist from the Northeast, Wickliffe Draper.","author":"A.E. Samaan","tags":["american-south","civil-rights","civil-rights-act","civil-rights-movement","eugenicist","eugenics","harvard","race-hygiene","racial","racial-discrimination","racism","scientific-racism","segregation"],"id":57562,"author_id":"A.E.+Samaan"},{"text":"Senator John Stennis:The civil rights movement did more to free the white man that the black man. ... It freed my soul.","author":"Joe Biden","tags":["civil-rights-movement","politics"],"id":82880,"author_id":"Joe+Biden"},{"text":"The greatest evil in our country today is...Ignorance...We need to be taught to study rather than to believe.","author":"Septima Poinsette Clark","tags":["civil-rights-movement","inspirational","learning"],"id":102902,"author_id":"Septima+Poinsette+Clark"},{"text":"I had never read a book written by an African-American. I didn't know that black people could write books. I didn't know that blacks had done any great things. I was always conscious of my inferiority and I always remembered my place - until the Civil Rights Movement came to the town where I was born and grew up.","author":"Endesha Ida Mae Holland","tags":["african-americans","civil-rights-movement","memoir","mississippi-","playwright"],"id":106021,"author_id":"Endesha+Ida+Mae+Holland"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":45,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}