1960s Quote by H. W. Brands

1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to get people to respond, because of…

— John Lewis

I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were…

— Todd Haynes

It was not until the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s that Congress got serious about the assignment laid out in the…

— Adam Cohen

By the 1960s, many of us believed that the Civil Rights Movement could eliminate racism in America during our lifetime. But despite significant progress,…

— Bill Cosby

In the 1960s, the civil rights movement was about getting to know your culture, your history. I know all about my history.

— Afeni Shakur

I think the activism of the 1960s had a very definite civilizing effect on the whole society in all kinds of ways. So lots…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Herm Edwards

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect…

— Aberjhani

Many civil rights came about, not when they were passed into law, but because the federal government did what it should and saw them…

— Claire McCaskill

We didn't have any civil rights. It was just a matter of survival, of existing from one day to the next. I remember going…

— Rosa Parks

When people discuss the 1960s and the great Civil Rights Era, they often speak in romantic terms as if there wasn't immense work put…

— Al Sharpton

Many Americans who supported the initial thrust of civil rights, as represented by the Brown v. Board of Education decision and the Civil Rights…

— Thomas Sowell