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

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

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

What sensible people have got to do is not simply repeal the Affordable Care Act without any alternative, but you've got to sit down and say it's OK, what are the problems. How do we address it? How do we move to universal health care? How do we lower prescription drug costs? How do we make sure that people don't have outrageous deductibles? You just don't throw 20 million people off of health insurance. You don't privatize Medicare.

Maybe, just maybe, there should be a graphic novel dealing with the contribution of the women of the civil rights movement, to tell their story. The pain, the hurt. They raised their children. Some were working as maids, but when they left those kitchens, those homes, they made it to the mass meetings. And they put their bodies on the lines, also.

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.

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