There is a happy land, Far, far away, Where Saints in glory stand, Bright, bright as day.

I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.

More and more I find I'm really impressed with how much my son knows and how much he thinks like me. But he never would agree with me and he never would listen to me on anything.

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

Having personally watched the Voting Rights Act being signed into law that August day, I can't begin to imagine how we could have all been so wrong in believing that more Americans would vote once they were all truly free to do so.

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.