Lunch Counter Quotes

9 quotes by 8 authors

• When women got the vote, they did not redefine voting. When African-Americans got the right to sit at a lunch counter alongside white people, they… — Cynthia Nixon
• There's a counter for every hold and a hold for every counter, and a lunch counter for every person that you know Schivone. — Bobby Heenan
• What good is having the right to sit at a lunch counter if you can't afford to buy a hamburger? — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Las Vegas is Everymans cut-rate Babylon. Not far away there is, or was, a roadside lunch counter and over it a sign proclaiming in three… — Alistair Cooke
• America is the promised land, because each generation bequeathed to its children a promise, a promise that they might not come to enjoy but which… — Joe Biden
• The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter. — Marian Wright Edelman
• The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the acquaintance of a… — Jack Kerouac
• The success that Americans are said to worship is success of a specific sort: accomplished not through hard work, primarily, but through the ingenious angle,… — Walter Kirn

Who Wrote These Lunch Counter Quotes

8 authors contributed a total of 9 Lunch Counter Quotes as follows:

• 2 Lunch Counter Quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1 Lunch Counter Quote by Cynthia Nixon
• 1 Lunch Counter Quote by Bobby Heenan
• 1 Lunch Counter Quote by Alistair Cooke
• 1 Lunch Counter Quote by Joe Biden
• 1 Lunch Counter Quote by Marian Wright Edelman
• 1 Lunch Counter Quote by Jack Kerouac
• 1 Lunch Counter Quote by Walter Kirn