Civil rights Quote by Todd Haynes

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

Certainly there's a huge appeal to the '60s, because it was such a big turning point to everyone. It was the era of change,…

— Margot Robbie

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

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

— H. W. Brands

Yes, the '60s went too far, but we were trying to find new ways, better ways, to do things. And great seeds were planted:…

— John Densmore

I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the…

— Kathryn Stockett

When the women's movement began, it was a middle-class phenomenon. Certainly, black women had other stuff to think about in the '60s besides a…

— Gail Collins

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

— Herm Edwards

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

“THESE MANIFESTATIONS OF BACKLASH—against family breakup, illegitimacy, welfare, crime, riots, black activists, anti-war demonstrators, long-haired hippies, government programs that favored minorities, elitists, liberals generally—exposed…

— James T. Patterson

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

— Afeni Shakur

A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement, the women's…

— Steven Van Zandt