We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

I believe that teachers - whether in elementary schools, at the secondary level, or at colleges and universities - every teacher deserves the Nobel Peace Prize just for maintaining order in our schools!

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

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.

As a young child, it became crystal clear to me that there were certain rights and privileges that other people had that my mother, my father, my grandparents, my great grandparents didn't have - that it was an ongoing struggle to realize the dream of the 14th and 15th Amendment.

Donald Trump has made it clear that certainly over the last few years that President [Barack] Obama was born in Hawaii.

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.