top of page
.png){kind=small}
"The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody."
Standard
Customized
More
"The law regards man as man, and takes no account of his surroundings or of his color when his civil rights as guaranteed by the supreme law of the land are involved."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I don't call myself a white supremacist. I'm a civil rights activist concerned about European-American rights."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement."
Author Name
Personal Development
"I think the Civil Rights Movement changed that trajectory for me. The first thing I did was leave school. I was suspended for my participation in Movement demonstrations in my hometown, December, 1961."
Author Name
Personal Development
"The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody."
Author Name
Personal Development
"If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses to leave the back of the bus."
Author Name
Personal Development
"When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"Marilyn and I were rumored to be an item. We were friends. Nothing more. Marilyn was one of the sweetest creatures that ever lived."
Friendship
"I don't have many easy songs."
Music
"Reality is never as bad as a nightmare, as the mental tortures we inflict on ourselves."
Reality
"A man is not complete until he has seen the baby he has made."
Baby
"Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food."
Food
"I didn't hate being 60 as much as I had 50."
Being
"There are certain romances that belong in certain cities, in a certain atmosphere, in a certain time."
Time
"Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted."
Hope
"I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me."
People
"I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there."
War
bottom of page