It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights.

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective.

Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies.

We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live.

President Lyndon Johnson's high spirits were marked as he circulated among the many guests whom he had invited to witness an event he confidently felt to be historic, the signing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.... The bill that lay on the polished mahogany desk was born in violence in Selma, Alabama, where a stubborn sheriff... had stumbled against the future.