Robert Davi Quotes

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.

Bobby Darin was one of the first to take black musicians on the road with his band, and there were places that didn't want him to play, and he stood up to it.

It was natural to see the struggle for dignity for black people in America as a sister struggle of the Jewish struggle. So growing up, it was always a part of my breakfast cereal to think of myself as someone who was part of a larger struggle.

Dick Gregory was a great comedian who went and got arrested, did hunger strikes, protests. It never hurt his career to be outspoken.

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.

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

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.

My parents both were doing the Civil Rights Movement, were very involved with the civil rights to Congress. And my friends' parents were as well.

In the view of some people, you can only believe in civil rights if you work as a civil rights lawyer. I just don't buy that.

The American civil rights movement is not, and never has been dominated by the Communists—because the overwhelming majority of civil rights leaders in this country, both Negro and white, have recognized and rejected Communism as a menace to the freedom of all.

This is the most progressive Administration in the civil rights field in history, and you're going to quit over that? I want the Johnson Administration to practice what it preaches.

At my request, the Solicitor General … went before the Supreme Court and argued against the vicious, restrictive covenants that had prevented houses in many places from being sold to Negroes, Hispanics, Asians and to Jews. It was a great day in the history of civil rights when we won that case.

Racism was once just racism, a terrible bigotry that people nevertheless learned to live with, if not as a necessary evil then as an inevitable one. But the civil-rights movement, along with independence movements around the world, changed that.

I never remember, like, saying, 'Well, I'm going to belong - join the civil rights movement.'

The fights for media justice and racial justice have been intertwined since the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.

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

You can't be born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1955 and grow up in South Central near the Black Panthers headquarters and not feel like you've got some kind of social responsibility.

Man, all lives matter.

I was very much a part of the civil rights era, so, of course, my fantasy was to marry some outstanding black gentleman, a leader - someone like Martin Luther King who was doing something for black people.

My father acted as the Illinois Branch president of the NAACP and so we spent a lot of time in the marches and the rallies working on behalf of people of color.

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

In college, I was so blessed to have relationships with those who did the civil rights movement.

My grandmother had been a part of the civil rights movement.

Maybe you're willing to tolerate a lot of bigotry from Donald Trump if you say, just change things, just change things.