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" When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people to forgive you. "

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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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The vote controls everything that you do. "

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

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

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

" I believe race is too heavy a burden to carry into the 21st century. It's time to lay it down. We all came here in different ships, but now we're all in the same boat. "

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" I think Dr. King would be pleased to see the number of elected officials of color - African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and progressive whites. "

" There are still forces in America that want to divide us along racial lines, religious lines, sex, class. But we've come too far; we've made too much progress to stop or to pull back. We must go forward. And I believe we will get there. "

" 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 grew up very poor in rural Alabama. "

" 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. "

" If you're not hopeful and optimistic, then you just give up. You have to take the long hard look and just believe that if you're consistent, you will succeed. "

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

" Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog? "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" Rosa Parks inspired me to find a way to get in the way, to get in trouble... good trouble, necessary trouble. "

" 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. "

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