Authority Quote by John Lewis

By the early 1960s, there was a moral consensus on what needed to be done on civil rights.

— H. W. Brands

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,…

— Peter Riegert

The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted…

— Aberjhani

Contrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil Rights Act…

— Ron Paul

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

— Afeni Shakur

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

— Clarence Thomas

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

— Henry Rollins

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

Because when we look at the modern civil rights movement under the leadership of my father and the team that he developed, it was…

— Martin Luther King III

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

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 ESCALATING DEMANDS for rights after 1965, and especially the riots, did more than bewilder people. They also aroused significant backlash, the most vivid…

— James T. Patterson