“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.”

Sensible people have got to work together.

Too many of us still believe our differences define us.

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.

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.

I got interested in politics during the civil rights movement and then Vietnam.

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world – right after the Civil War.

I like the liberal tradition; I like the Hubert Humphrey tradition fighting for civil rights.

The civil rights movement was very important in my house, and then Vietnam was very important ’cause there were two boys, so I came of age during a very heated political climate.

Rosa Parks was primed, she had the Civil Rights Movement behind her, she didn’t just decide to sit on the bus, it was strategic.

Then the people won’t trust in them – and the result will be civil war or fragmentation of the country.

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the most sweeping civil rights legislation of its day, and included women’s rights as part of its reforms.

We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.