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

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" We come to Selma to be renewed. We come to be inspired. We come to be reminded that we must do the work that justice and equality calls us to do. "

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

" I couldn't say no to A. Philip Randolph and no to Martin Luther King, Jr. These two men, I loved them, I admired them, and they were my heroes. "

" I would say the country is a different country. It is a better country. The signs I saw when I was growing up are gone and they will not return. In many ways the walls of segregation have been torn down. "

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

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

" We are tired of being beaten by policemen. We are tired of seeing our people locked up in jails over and over again. And then you holler, 'Be patient.' How long can we be patient? "

" When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Too many people struggled, suffered, and died to make it possible for every American to exercise their right to vote. "

" The vote is precious. It's almost sacred, so go out and vote like you never voted before. "

" 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. "

" Sometimes I hear people saying, 'Nothing has changed.' Come and walk in my shoes. "

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Black men and women were not allowed to register to vote. My own mother, my own father, my grandfather and my uncles and aunts could not register to vote because each time they attempted to register to vote, they were told they could not pass the literacy test. "

" You cannot be at home with something that you feel that is wrong, is not right. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" You have to go with your gut sometimes, and how you feel. "

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

" I studied the philosophy and the discipline of non-violence in Nashville as a student. And I staged a sitting-in in the fall of 1959 and got arrested the first time in February 1960. "

" In 1965, the attempted march from Selma to Montgomery on March 7 was planned to dramatize to the state of Alabama and to the nation that people of color wanted to register to vote. "