Tom Brokaw Quotes

When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies.

Don't underlook the Sixties; we started eating more vegetables, respecting women, and we shut down Vietnam. We did a lot of good stuff. But it shouldn't shut you down from the moment.

In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh.

My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.

In the women's movement, women needed men to stand up and say, 'This isn't right.' In the civil rights of the '60s, it took people of all color to demand equal rights.

Students in the '60s were responsible for great changes, politically and socially.

Martin Luther King does the cause of Civil Rights a disservice by linking it with the Vietnam issue.

A lot of the idealism of the Sixties was spot on, from the environmentalism to the war to the Civil Rights movement, the women's rights movement, you name it.

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil rights work before most people had ever heard the word 'feminism,' and in those early years, she was focused on racial justice.

The tragedy of the civil rights movement is that just as it achieved the beginning of the end of racial segregation, white educated elites became swept up in the glamour of the sexual revolution.

I didn't like the '60s because it was too important what people who had nothing to do with the war thought about it.

In 1962, the smallest things were upsetting to authority. It wasn't the Civil Rights Movement. It wasn't the Anti-war Movement. It was something else, but it was a harbinger of what was to come.

The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.

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.

It's very hard to have lived through the Sixties and not be political.

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

During the 19th-century struggle for women's rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

As Suffragettes we could not be pacifists at any price.

When America became stigmatized in the '60s as racist, sexist and militaristic, it wanted moral authority above all else.

I think many of the ideas that opened up in the '60s got implemented in the '70s and that certain minority voices that were not being heard in the '60s, like women and gay people, were being heard in the '70s. Black Civil Rights had also found its foothold, and those ideas were also very pertinent.

Not only Negroes and Jews, but also women are part of a great revolt of which one can only approve.

Feminism is the best thing to come out of the '60's.