Rosa Parks was an unlikely person, but she became an instrument of the people's will in that community who were tired. They said she was tired from working and perhaps she was - but she herself said later that she was spiritually tired and weary of being humiliated by being asked to move back so that a white person could occupy her seat.

We've got nearly 50 million people in America with no health insurance. That's a weapon of mass destruction.

I don't absolve the Democrats of their lack of commitment to deal with poverty. But nowadays we're witnessing the widening of the gap. There's something wrong when a handful of people have more than they'll ever need while millions of people have less than they always need.

Everything has changed and nothing has changed.

If you don't know where you come from, it's difficult to determine where you are.- It's even more difficult to plan where you are going.

I think the Montgomery bus boycott initiated an era of self-determination.

If you don't know where you come from, then you want know when you'er being taken back.