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

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" To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" The vote controls everything that you do. "

" A few days after Bloody Sunday, there was demonstration in more than 80 American cities. People were demanding that the government act. "

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

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

" 1963, because of the sense of moral authority that the civil rights movement had, we were able to get people to respond, because of the quality of our demand and our sense of moral authority. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Obama is not an African American president, but a president of all Americans. It doesn't matter if you are black, white, Hispanic, he's the president of all races. "

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

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house... and through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. For hate is too heavy a burden to bear. "

" 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. "

" I travel all the time, but when I come back to the South, I see such progress. In a real sense, a great deal of the South has been redeemed. People feel freer, more complete, more whole, because of what happened in the movement. "

" The March on Washington was a March for Jobs and Freedom. There are still too many people who are unemployed or underemployed in America - they're black, white, Latino, Native American and Asian American. "