“I think my whole life has been one of sort of daring, and sort of sailing against the wind instead of just going with the wind.”

Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.

Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.

When you make mistakes, when you’re wrong, you should admit you’re wrong and ask people to forgive you.

There should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story.

The vote controls everything that you do.

Music is a universal language.

Even in the civil rights movement, there were so many unbelievable women. They never, ever received the credit that they should have received. They did all of the, and I cannot say it, they did all of the dirty work. Hard work.

I believe that teachers – whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities – every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!

We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

You cannot give up – you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we’ve come and the progress we’ve made.

Non violence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.

Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

Every single vote is precious.

We never gave up. We didn’t get lost in a sea of despair. We kept the faith. We kept pushing and pulling. We kept marching. And we made some progress.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

You’re going against the government of the United States. You don’t beat a federal court, a federal judge, and the FBI – there’s no way.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

Watch! When the wind blows my banner against the bulwark, you shall take it.

I would rather die than do something which I know to be a sin, or to be against God’s will.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

It is also a course of action that strikes a blow against the regime of international order, but which offers the weak at least some protection from predatory states.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.