Glenne Headly Quotes

By 1962, King had become, by the media's reckoning, the new civil rights leader.

If Rosa Parks had not refused to move to the back of the bus, you and I might never have heard of Dr. Martin Luther King.

I realized that my grandfather walked with Martin Luther King forty years ago. That was his dream. And in his little way, he helped us get closer to where we are today.

I think, along with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks will go down as one of the two most well-known and remembered figures out of the Civil Rights Movement.

The March on Washington was a culmination of years of hard work and dedication of many individuals.

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.

I had been involved in the March on Washington in 1963. I was with friends carrying a sign, 'Protestants, Jews and Catholics for Civil Rights.'

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.

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

The March on Washington was a middle class picnic.

When I was 15 years old in 1955, I heard of Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on our radio.

I went to the library and found lots of material about this time, about the Freedom March and what was going on down there in 1964.

Selma was the turning point.

I'd love to talk with Martin Luther King, just to hear his voice up close and be with someone who had such faith. He had such power.

I left the South in 1963 and was living in Morristown, New Jersey, when the March on Washington took place, so I watched it on television instead.

I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

Rosa Parks' entire career has been one as working as a civil rights activist.

Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear what was going on. I wanted to be a part of it. I wanted to contribute in the best way I possibly could.