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When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.
We're one people, and we all live in the same house. Not the American house, but the world house.
Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.
I believe it is my obligation to tell the story of the civil rights movement to the next generation.
I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].
I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings.
Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back.
I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.
Well, what Cory Booker and John Lewis are right about is to talk about the racist past of Donald Trump.
I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in.
When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people to forgive you.
I think putting the United States down across the world is not something that a responsible person does.
It's going to be very difficult. I don't see the president-elect [Donald Trump] as a legitimate president.
Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division.
You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.
John Lewis stood up and said in an interview that Donald Trump was not a legitimate president. It's insanity.
Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary trouble.
I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders.
If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.
You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people.
This book [March], in my estimation, is a road map. It is a change agent. It is saying to people, "This is a way".
When I was 15 years old in 1955, I heard of Rosa Parks. I heard the words of Martin Luther King, Jr. on our radio.
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.
Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings.
Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote.
Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation.
Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.
Many of us in Nashville accepted nonviolence as a way of life, a way of living, not simply as a technique or a tactic.
Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.
It's not just Barack Obama, but I doubt Jimmy Carter or Bill Clinton would have made it to the White House without Selma.
I'm gonna say that I have followed every presidential campaign since the campaign of President [John F.] Kennedy in 1960.
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.
The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.
Dr. King was one of the most inspiring human beings I ever met. He was such a warm, compassionate, and loving human being.
Sometimes I feel like crying, tears of happiness, tears of joy, to see the distance we've come and the progress we've made.
The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something.
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.
The assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. made me very, very sad, and I mourned and I cried like many of our citizens did.
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.
In spite of all of the things, the issues, that we may be confronting today, I'm very hopeful, very optimistic about the future.
To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.
Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.
If you ask me whether the election of Barack Obama is the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream, I say, 'No, it's just a down payment.'
DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.
A few days after Bloody Sunday, there was demonstration in more than 80 American cities. People were demanding that the government act.
Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
I am very, very hopeful about the American South - I believe that we will lead America to what Dr. King called 'the beloved community.'
When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to speak up. You have to say something; you have to do something.
Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.
I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.