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" I'm very hopeful. I am very optimistic about the future. "

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" In Selma, Alabama, in 1965, only 2.1 percent of blacks of voting age were registered to vote. The only place you could attempt to register was to go down to the courthouse. You had to pass a so-called literacy test. And they would tell people over and over again that they didn't or couldn't pass the literacy test. "

" You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward. "

" 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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" Many young people, many children, are being abused, being put down, being bullied because of their sexual orientation. "

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

" Sometimes you have to not just dream about what could be - you get out and push and you pull and you preach. And you create a climate and environment to get those in high places, to get men and women of good will in power to act. "

" Early on, I wrote a letter to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. I was 17. I felt called, moved. "

" I think President Barack Obama has been a good president. "

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

" I always felt growing up that in the South there was evil but also good - so much good. "

" People come up to me in airports, they walk into the office, and they say, 'I'm going to cry; I'm going to pass out.' And I say, 'Please don't pass out; I'm not a doctor.' "

" 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. "

" Following the teaching of Gandhi and Thoreau, Dr. King, it set me on a path. And I never looked back. "

" I grew up in rural Alabama, 50 miles from Montgomery, in a very loving, wonderful family: wonderful mother, wonderful father. We attended church; we went to Sunday school every Sunday. "

" Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process. "

" I believe that you see something that you want to get done, you cannot give up, and you cannot give in. "

" The party of Kennedy is also the party of Eastland. The party of Javits is also the party of Goldwater. "

" There is a need for a movement of non-violent direct action. "

" 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. "

" Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work. "

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

" There's nothing wrong with a little agitation for what's right or what's fair. "

" You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way... to get in the way. "

" I never praised Mr. Snowden or said his actions rise to those of Mohandas Gandhi or other civil rights leaders. "

" Never give up. Never give in. Never become hostile... Hate is too big a burden to bear. "

" When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't become a registered voter until I moved to Tennessee, to Nashville, as a student. "

" In the past the great majority of minority voters, in Ohio and other places that means African American voters, cast a large percentage of their votes during the early voting process. "

" 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. "

" You have to tell the whole truth, the good and the bad, maybe some things that are uncomfortable for some people. "