Service is the rent we pay for living.

In politics, there are no friends.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

We must always refill and ensure there is a critical mass of leaders and activists committed to nonviolence and racial and economic justice who will keep seeding and building transforming movements.

You can achieve much in life if you don't mind doing the work and giving someone else the credit.

I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.

Be real. Try to do what you say, say what you mean, and be what you seem.