Awareness Quote by Sue Monk Kidd

Racism plagued America throughout the '60s, into the '70s, through the '80s; it continued in the '90s and in the first decade of the…

— Jack Schlossberg

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

— Molly Ivins

As a black millennial, I remember with horrid detail how Democratic policies ravaged my community and destroyed my family.

— Patrisse Cullors

Freedom Summer, the massive voter education project in Mississippi, was 1964. I graduated from high school in 1965. So becoming active was almost a…

— Danny Glover

I can remember, as a child, the happy days of us all piling into the car and going to the drive-in. And that was…

— Susan Burton

I still remember, at the age of 12, learning that segregation had been permitted only a couple of decades before I was born and…

— Rashida Tlaib

I like to remember happy memories from my childhood growing up as a girl in Blackburn and while this mostly speaks true, there were…

— A. J. Odudu

It was the biggest suppression of voting rights in our country's history since Jim Crow. And the thread of race runs from the beginning…

— Sidney Blumenthal

If it weren't for the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, the Congressional Black Caucus, Barack Obama, and the NAACP, racial strife in America would be…

— Jesse Lee Peterson

I grew up in the American South and came of age in the 1960s, an incredibly turbulent time. It was as if the seams…

— Sue Monk Kidd

During the 1960s, I think, people forgot what emotions were supposed to be. And I don't think they've ever remembered.

— Andy Warhol

If you can remember anything about the sixties, you weren't really there.

— Paul Kantner