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

If someone had told me in 1963 that one day I would be in Congress, I would have said, 'You're crazy. You don't know what you're talking about.'

It's going to be very difficult. I don't see the president-elect [Donald Trump] as a legitimate president.

I think right now, the focus has got to be on how we hold [Donald] Trump accountable.

My parents told me in the very beginning as a young child when I raised the question about segregation and racial discrimination, they told me not to get in the way, not to get in trouble, not to make any noise.

I remember being at the church a few hours after the church was bombed in Birmingham, the 16th Street Baptist Church. It was very hard and very difficult to stand on that corner across the street from the church. Or to go Mississippi and search for the three civil rights workers who came up missing. There is a lot of trauma.

DNI director [James] Clapper said as much many, many times, that there is no evidence that any outcome of the election was changed.