Anti war Quote by Peter Riegert

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

— Joe Biden

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

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

Let's look at two things real quickly: the civil rights movement in Mississippi in the Sixties and the Arab Spring starting in Tunisia and…

— Bill Ayers

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

— Herm Edwards

In my judgment, the slogan "black power" and what has been associated with it has set the civil rights movement back considerably in the…

— Robert Kennedy

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

I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now, this offers…

— Ella Baker

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

— Jack Schlossberg

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

“The rhetoric of ‘law and order’ was first mobilized in the late 1950s as Southern governors and law enforcement officials attempted to generate and…

— Michelle Alexander

The civil-rights movement was completely impossible to achieve. But look at what ordinary people were able to do because they were willing to sacrifice…

— Marian Wright Edelman