Civil Rights Era Quotes

#1. 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 in, and as if there wasn't immense sacrifice that took place. But none of those battles were easily fought and won; there were sustained movements behind them.

Al Sharpton

#2. A lot of things happened in a lot of places. And to see how well it was handled in Atlanta. There are a lot of reasons for Atlanta being a special town in the Civil Rights era.

Ivan Allen

#3. And to me, that's why the civil rights era is about the future, not about the past, because it's great lessons of how citizens can organize to call on the patriotic heritage of the country to tackle some of our most intractable problems and we need to do that again.

Taylor Branch

#4. Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.

Wesley Morris

#5. My earliest memories are of the civil rights era. My earliest experiences were rage.

Janine Di Giovanni

#6. Through the dark days of legalized segregation and on into the civil rights era, jazz shone as a beacon for achieving interracial respect and understanding. It seemed as if the dream of a color-blind society was within reach in the jazz world, where musicians were judged on merit and not skin color.

Randy Sandke

#7. The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Rand Paul

#8. You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.

Alphonso Jackson

#9. But perhaps a person only has two real residences: the childhood home and the grave.

Valeria Luiselli

#10. I had no way of predicting that Selma to Montgomery was indeed to be the last great civil rights march of the era, and that everything afterward would indeed by 'post-civil rights.

Junius Williams

#11. For here now is the age of iron. Never by daytime will there be an end to hard work and pain, nor in the night to weariness, when the gods will send anxieties to trouble us.

Hesiod

#12. It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.

Tupac Shakur

#13. That's a different side of the brain going into the studio, as opposed to doing a live show, obviously.

Charles Kelley

#14. Whatever Congress decides to do, in all fairness the only ones who should vote on this issue are members who themselves have never had sex outside of marriage and never lied about their sex lives either denying or exaggerating!

Patricia Ireland

#15. All my life, whenever it comes time to make a decision, I make it and forget about it.

Harry S. Truman

#16. Sometimes our minds acted as a form of kryptonite, and we had a responsibility to our own self-worth to aggressively tell it to fuck off with its lies.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#17. One 'is' a genius only in the sense that one 'is' a syphilitic, in the sense that 'one' is violently problematized by a ferocious exteriority. One returns to the subject of which genius has been predicated to find it charred and devastated beyond recognition.

Nick Land

#18. As an amateur, I couldn't get many fights. No one would fight me when I was a schoolboy.

Ricky Hatton

#19. I told you I'm poetic, right? The truth is, I wasn't always. Not until this moment. She's magnificent - angelic - gorgeous. Pick a word, any fucking word. The bottom line is, for a moment, I forget how to breathe.

Emma Chase

#20. I'll plant and water, sow and weed, Till not an inch of earth shows brown, And take a vow of each small seed To grow to greenness and renown: And then some day you'll pass my way, See gold and crimson, bell and star, And catch my garden's soul, and say: "How sweet these cottage gardens are!"

E. Nesbit

#21. The period that I would anoint as the golden era in American journalism was from the mid 1950s to the mid 1970s. It had three separate major strands: the Civil Rights struggle over integration of schools and public facilities in the South; the Vietnam War; and Watergate.

Anonymous

#22. You're a sum of all your experiences.

Tom Thibodeau

#23. I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups - I'm not an athlete. But my experience as a kid was, I was made fun of so much that what I did then, is, I wouldn't participate. And I think I cheated myself out of a lot of fun.

Rich Mullins

#24. My mom used to tell me, 'I live every day of my life for you.' I understand that now. The older I get, the more I understand.

Hines Ward