The Civil Rights Movement opened up a new flow of talent with Black and Hispanic leaders increasing the talent pool for American civil leadership.
I think people instinctively know that their job is to give service and that they are part of a community. It had a great impact on me when my father walked the picket lines and I walked with him during the civil rights movement.
The Civil Rights Movement also reaffirmed me as a singer. It taught me that singing was not entertainment, it was something else.
A movement that doesn't produce a backlash isn't much of a movement at all.
Even though I’m pro-globalization, I have to say thank God for the anti-globalization movement. They’re putting important issues on the agenda.
Nobody black had learned anything from the 'Letter from the Birmingham Jail' or from the 'I Have a Dream' speech. That was a revelation of white people.
When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.
I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.
The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think.
The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
The civil rights and antiwar movements taught Americans to question authority.
Only If there is devotion to knowledge, the 21st century will become India's century and the foundation of that will be laid by the 'Vanche Gujarat' movement.
It's hard to imagine you've got these massive wings in your back. You have to think about how it's going to affect your posture, affect the way you move, just, like, the sheer weight of them.
