“Thus was born the civil rights movement, an epic struggle that has required much sacrifice and pain, but which has enabled the United States to progress, in just three decades, from being a nation where blacks were forced to ride in the back of the bus, to being a nation where, due to federal cutbacks, there is no bus.”

— Dave Barry

Source: Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States (1989), p. 138

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