“The vote is the most powerful nonviolent tool we have.”

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.

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 Social-Democrats always stand for democracy, not “in the name of capitalism,” but in the name of clearing the path for our movement, which clearing is impossible without the development of capitalism.

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

It doesn’t matter who they vote for, they always vote for us.

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

Democrats legislate; Republicans investigate.

I’ll have those n**gers voting Democratic for the next 200 years.

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.