Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night.

Unless children have strong education and strong families and strong communities and decent housing, it's not enough to go sit in at a lunch counter.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?

Children don't vote but adults who do must stand up and vote for them.

It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

So much of the deep lingering sadness over President Kennedy's assassination is about the unfinished promise: unspoken speeches, unfulfilled hopes, the wondering about what might have been.