I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south from a child.

To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice.

In coming to Atlantic City, we believed strongly that we were right. In fact, it was just right for us to come to challenge the seating of the regular Democratic Party from Mississippi. But we didn't think when we got there that we would meet people, that actually the other leaders of the Movement would differ with what we felt was right.

With the people, for the people, by the people. I crack up when I hear it; I say, with the handful, for the handful, by the handful, cause that's what really happens.

If this is a Great Society, I'd hate to see a bad one.

A white man killed the mules and our cows that knocked us right back down. And things got so tough then I began to wish I was white.

My mother got down sick in 53 and she lived with me, an invalid, until she passed away in 1961. And during the time she was staying with me sometime I would be worked so hard I couldn't sleep at night.