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

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

" Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today. "

" The government, both state and federal, has a duty to be reasonable and accommodating. "

" 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. "

" 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 wanted young people to know that I was just a typical child. "

" Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for it. "

" 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. "

" We need some creative tension; people crying out for the things they want. "

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

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

" We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just... do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It's all going to work out. "

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

" I don't understand it, how President Johnson can send troops to Vietnam and cannot send troops to Selma, Alabama, to protect people whose only desire is to register to vote. "

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

" Selma helped make it possible for hundreds and thousands of people in the South to become registered voters and encouraged people all across America to become participants in a democratic process. "

" I believe in forgiveness; I believe in trying to work with people. "

" I don't think Trump really believes in all this stuff. But he thinks this would be his ticket to the White House - at least to get the Republican nomination. "

" Too many of us still believe our differences define us. "

" It was not enough to come and listen to a great sermon or message every Sunday morning and be confined to those four walls and those four corners. You had to get out and do something. "

" Not one of us can rest, be happy, be at home, be at peace with ourselves, until we end hatred and division. "

" If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.' "

" 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. "

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

" I want to see young people in America feel the spirit of the 1960s and find a way to get in the way. To find a way to get in trouble. Good trouble, necessary trouble. "

" The press is supposed to serve as a check on government. "