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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.

Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.

[O]ur revolt was as much against the traditional black leadership structure as it was against segregation and discrimination.

Love is a better way.

I believe in nonviolence as a way of life, as a way of living.

I think all Americans should be hopeful, and try to be optimistic.

Some people know Rosa Parks, they know Daisy Bates in Arkansas, but every ... Ruby Doris Smith, Diane Nash, countless individuals.

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life.

You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.

I believe in freedom of speech, but I also believe that we have an obligation to condemn speech that is racist, bigoted, anti-Semitic, or hateful.

I heard Dr. King speaking on the radio, and it seemed like he was saying, "John Robert Lewis, you too can make a contribution. You can get involved!"

We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

I don't have any extraordinary gifts. I'm just an average Joe who grew up very poor in rural Alabama.

Who gets the bird, the hunter or the dog?

If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

My mother and father and many of my relatives had been sharecroppers.

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