Age Quote by Al Franken

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18,…

— Radhanath Swami

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

— Al Franken

I was involved in the civil rights movement way back in the late '50s and through the '60s and '70s. I was doing a…

— George Takei

When I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I…

— John Lewis

My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color…

— Anna Holmes

The civil rights movement is something I've looked into a lot. When I was about 23, I started reading up on it all and…

— Andre Gray

I was a child coming up in the aftermath of the Civil Rights Movement.

— Too Short

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father…

— Marianne Williamson

I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country.

— Herm Edwards

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time -…

— David Talbot

I became a part of the Civil Rights movement early on and that has really shaped a great deal of my thinking.

— Amber Hollibaugh

The Vietnam War was taking place, which was raising all sorts of questions in the United States, and it was forcing Asian-Americans to stop…

— Grace Lee Boggs