When growing up, I saw segregation. I saw racial discrimination. I saw those signs that said white men, colored men. White women, colored women. White waiting. And I didn't like it.

The events in Prague, together with the Berlin blockade, convinced the European recipients of American economic assistance that they needed military protection as well: that led them to request the creation of a North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which committed the United States for the first time ever to the peacetime defense of Western Europe.

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

To question the legitimacy of the next United States president, you know, and you're worried about a tweet that says, hey, why don't you get back to work instead of questioning my legitimacy? Too bad.

We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.

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

I would say to a young person: continue to study. Study what is taking place in your community, in your neighborhood, maybe at your school.