Some people think that [it was] Martin Luther King Jr.'s idea to have a boycott. It was a black woman, a teacher, who said we should boycott the buses. You had people like Fannie Lou Hamer; Delta, Mississippi.

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

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

People should organize people to just turn up and participate in the democratic process. Knock on doors. They may not be old enough to register to vote, but they can urge their teachers, their parents, their grandparents, their mothers, their fathers, and others to get out and vote.

You cannot give up - you have to be persistent and keep pushing, and press on.

I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].

There are hundreds and thousands of young Americans who cannot or will not receive an education, because in order to get an education, you have to spend money. Students come out of college and universities with unbelievable debt. It's not right, it's not fair, and it's not just, in a society such as ours. And those dollars are not going to the teachers.