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" I really believe that all of us, as Americans... we all need to be treated like fellow human beings. "

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" Without prayer, without faith in the Almighty, the civil rights movement would have been like a bird without wings. "

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" I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16 years old - we went down to the public library trying to check out some books, and we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites only and not for colors. It was a public library. "

" We're one people, and we all live in the same house. Not the American house, but the world house. "

" The action of Rosa Parks, the words and leadership of Dr. King inspired me. I was deeply inspired. I wanted to do something. "

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" We must continue to go forward as one people, as brothers and sisters. "

" Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope. "

" If it hadn't been for that march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, there would be no Barack Obama as President of the United States of America. "

" The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society. "

" When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change. "

" Now we have black and white elected officials working together. Today, we have gone beyond just passing laws. Now we have to create a sense that we are one community, one family. Really, we are the American family. "

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" Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied. "

" 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. "

" Without the Sisters of St. Joseph, I might not be standing here. "