Quotes of: Civil-rights-movement Keyword

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

Danny Glover

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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

Henry Louis Gates

At the same time the folk boom was happening, the civil rights movement was happening, the anti-war movement was happening, the ban the bomb movement was happening, the environmental movement was happening. There was suddenly a generation ready to ch...

Arlo Guthrie

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

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.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

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

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.

John Hume

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.

Peter Riegert

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

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California an...

David Talbot

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

David Price

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

Al Franken

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

Bob Edwards

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

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

Russell Banks

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

Tom Cardamone