Civil rights Quote by Walter Cronkite Download Open image “The civil rights fight was a very important fight.” — Walter Cronkite ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Civil Right Civil rights Fight Important Rights
When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to… — Gloria Allred Copy Share Image
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today. — David Harris Copy Share Image
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the… — Carol Moseley Braun Copy Share Image
Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson Copy Share Image
The fight for civil rights did not end when Donald Trump was elected president. We've got work to do. — Christopher Jackson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The civil rights movement is understanding your freedom under the Constitution of these United States and if anyone tries to take those freedoms from… — Ken Hutcherson Copy Share Image
The seminal right of the modern civil rights movement was the right to vote. My father fought so diligently for it. Certainly Congressman John… — Martin Luther King III Copy Share Image
Look at the Civil Rights Movement. Look at any kind of fight for change. People had to keep fighting and taking their rights. Rights… — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
I think what it was about was the people's right to vote and have those votes counted. And if you think back through our… — David Boies Copy Share Image
I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
It is clear that military force and our policy of preemption are alone insufficient to make us safe. But help is on the way.… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
In all my years as a news commentator I was never once, able to tell the truth, about anything. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I grew my mustache when I was nineteen in order to look older. I never shaved it off even though it overran its usefulness… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
All through my life, I have never disguised my sentiments about politics in general. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
Every one knows that the exercise of military power is forever dangerous to civil rights; and we have had recent instances of violences that… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I speak not for myself, but so those without a voice can be heard. Those who have fought for their rights. Their right to… — Malala Yousafzai Copy Share Image
The Patriot Act is certainly a concern; all of those things are dangerous. I think more important than me preaching is that we as… — George Clooney Copy Share Image
American civil rights leader, Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? Lynching is a murder. For the past four hundred years our… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
“Why do we apologize for advocating for ourselves? Why do we apologize for taking up space that we are entitled to? Why do we… — Elizabeth Tambascio Copy Share Image
We are a nation of innovators and problem-solvers who sparked revolutions in democratic government, civil rights, communications, flight, rural electrification and technology. We are… — Stanley A. McChrystal Copy Share Image
“Mental illness is not something you misunderstand in this era. Get educated because bias is no different than racism.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
Civil rights leaders are involved in helping poor people. That's what I've been doing all my life. — Andrew Young Copy Share Image
I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country. — Herm Edwards Copy Share Image
The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights based on race, gender and, any day now, sexual orientation. The great liberal revolution, centuries in the making, that brought forth equality in law has been overthrown. In its place we see rising a new feudal… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share
The world - and America - has been defined by people who haven't necessarily abided by the laws and the rules. Civil disobedience is… — Rory Kennedy Copy Share Image
