The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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Civil rights was not an impossible dream. Thousands of brave African Americans stepped forward to make it happen.
It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.
Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.
The really important victory of the civil rights movement was that it made racism unpopular, whereas a generation ago at the turn of the last century, you had to embrace racism to get elected to anything.
I don't think the riots derailed the civil rights movement.
Civil rights are more important today than they ever have been in our country. There is so much divisiveness today.
The civil rights movement in the United States was about the same thing, about equality of treatment for all sections of the people, and that is precisely what our movement was about.
During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
Washington, D.C. in 1942 was not the easiest place in the world for a Negro to get along.
In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.