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

Never lose your hope, be optimistic.

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble – good trouble, necessary trouble.

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.

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.

Respect life, revere life. There is nothing more holy than life, nothing more divine than life.

Follow Your Passion And Life Will Reward You.

Without pain, how could we know joy?

No matter what happens to us in the future, everyday we are together is the greatest day of my life. I will always be yours.

I’m pro-choice. But I hope that choice will be life.

The man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more, garnering the simple goodness of life.

We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgement about them.

Today, we don’t fight for just one life, we fight for all of them.