Charlayne Hunter-Gault Quotes

I wrote a great deal about the Civil Rights Movement when I was writing for 'The Nation' in the '60s, and also for Esquire magazine. Reading the biography of Coffin, it just reminded me that in those days, when you saw the term 'Christian,' it usually meant people for civil rights and for justice.

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.

Some of the most moving experiences I've had are just in black churches in the South, during the Civil Rights Movement, where people were getting beaten, killed, really struggling for the most elementary rights.

I’ve never been involved in a Civil Rights campaign that was not ill-timed

The Civil Rights Movement is in transition from protest to politics, and in politics compromise is necessary.

The civil rights movement didn't end on August 6, 1965. It continued because the work of creating a truly equal country never ends.

The Civil Rights Movement, it wasn't just a couple of, you know, superstars like Martin Luther King. It was thousands and thousands - millions, I should say - of people taking risks, becoming leaders in their community.

I had very little exposure to business growing up. I also was very focused on the Civil Rights Movement. And I saw law as a vehicle to really bring about substantial change.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.

Mrs. Parks' act of brave defiance rocked the foundation of American society and inspired generations of civil rights leaders and created a sense of hope for every American facing legal discrimination in this country.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

Even here in America, people are fighting for civil rights 45 years after the civil rights movement.

We've talked more about civil rights after the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than we talked about it before 1964.

The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.

I considered myself engaged in a war from Day One. And my objective was to force the federal government - the Kennedy administration at that time - into a position where they would have to use the United States military force to enforce my rights as a citizen.

Rosa Parks showed us all that one little person can make a whole bunch of noise without so much as a whisper.

The March on Washington was not a climax but a new beginning.

Martin Luther King told American Blacks not to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism.

Before, the Negro in the South had always looked on the defensive, cringing. This time they were taking the initiative.

I want you to leave here with a sense of mission. Martin Luther King is waiting for you to march with him.

I do not believe as Martin Luther King did, that the arc of history bends towards justice. I see the arc of history bending towards chaos or the unknown.