Bobby Scott Quotes

The New Deal ultimately undermined Jim Crow’s prospects. The very legislation embraced by Southern segregationists created at first mere chinks, then whole openings for social change that were grasped by an incipient, soon powerful, movement for equal rights for Blacks.

The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

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

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

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

I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.

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.

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.

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.

In the summer of 1964, my sister and I went to South Ballston, Virginia, to stay with my aunt and her kids. They passed the civil rights bill that summer; my cousins were so happy because now they could swim in the pool.

I support the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

It was to carry the American democratic journey beyond these failings that Black citizens and civil rights workers risked unemployment, violence and death.

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

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

The time to end racial segregation in the South is upon us now.

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

The civil rights movement was about access to public space. We had to fight for public space.

It's good that segregation is over.

As the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education Supreme Court case has shown us, separate is not always equal.

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

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

Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

On July 2, 1964, President Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act. Its enactment, following the longest continuous debate in the history of the U.S. Senate, enshrined into law the basic principle upon which our country was founded - that all people are created equal.