We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.

I want to be remembered as one who tried.