Quotes of: Civil-right Keyword

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

Danny Glover

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

Clarence Thomas

No Republican questions or disputes civil rights. I have never wavered in my support for civil rights or the civil rights act.

Rand Paul

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

Janis Ian

I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.

Henry Louis Gates

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

David Price

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

Bobby Scott

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

Al Franken

A second line is in effect a civil rights demonstration. Literally, demonstrating the civil right of the community to assemble in the street for peaceful purposes. Or, more simply, demonstrating the civil right of the community to exist.

Ned Sublette

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've had, are sort of insulted that the civil rights movement is being hijacked - the rhetoric of the civil rights movement is being hijacked for something lik...

Gary Bauer

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

Jim Costa

As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.

James T. Walsh

For me, jazz will always be the soundtrack of the civil rights movement.

Henry Rollins

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

Soul lyrics, soul music came at about the same time as the civil rights movement, and it's very possible that one influenced the other.

Ahmet Ertegun

The Stonewall riot may have been the start of a civil rights movement, but it was not the beginning of our history.

Tom Cardamone

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Ronald Reagan

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

bell hooks

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

Joe Biden