No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.

[Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].

So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about.

I hope that people of all faiths will start looking for our too-invisible children who are crying out for help.

[Martin Luther ] King didn't pick his leadership position. Most movements are not started by single people.