Nonviolence is one of those immutable principles that we cannot and must not deviate from.

We all remember that [Donald] Trump was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement trying to delegitimize the presidency of our first African-American president Barack Obama, which is an outrage.

I want [Donald] Trump to send out a tweet saying that he's going to keep his campaign promises.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

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.

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.

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.