But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

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

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.

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

We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.

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 I was 15 years old in the tenth grade, I heard Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at the time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change