Kamala Harris Quotes

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

Essentially, Eisenhower passed on to his successors the problem of guaranteeing constitutional rights to Negro citizens.

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 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.

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the Civil Rights Act.

The legal battle against segregation is won, but the community battle goes on.

Well of course there's been a great deal of progress over the last 40 years. We don't have laws that segregate black people within the society any longer.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

I'd like to think I would have signed the Civil Rights bill and wouldn't have had any issues with it.

The greatest movement for social justice our country has ever known is the civil rights movement and it was totally rooted in a love ethic.

We could beat back Kennedy on Civil Rights, but Lyndon [Johnson] knows how to beat us.

Why can a Communist eat at a lunch counter in Selma, Alabama while a Black American veteran cannot?

Lyndon Johnson used to call his chauffer “Boy,” but he passed the greatest Civil Rights bill in the history of the company.

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at the point of a bayonet, if necessary.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was vigorously and vociferously opposed by the Southern states. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed it into law nonetheless.

It's good that segregation is over.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

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

Boycotts have been a critical part of social justice in American history, particularly for African-Americans.

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

After Reconstruction, black newspapers evolved from being a propaganda arm into a kind of opposition press, because even the friends of former slaves had their fears.

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.

We Americans entered a new phase in our history - the era of integration - in 1954.

In our state, I'm really proud of the fact that the ones who overturned Jim Crow in Kentucky were Republicans fighting against an entirely unified Democrat Party. So I am proud to be Republican. I can't imagine being anything else.

You grow up with a heightened sense of the Civil Rights Movement, but I think it wasn't until I became of age that I really had a great appreciation for the struggle that took place.