If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

Most students graduate from high school knowing nine words about the civil rights movement: Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and "I Have a Dream." And that's it!

People forget that many of the aspects of the Selma campaign were laid out in response to the church bombing in Birmingham.

Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman [John] Lewis at a book festival.

In so many ways, forces unleashed in response to the Movement have come to dominate our politics, and technology is allowing the same injustices to be seen anew.

We don't want to just tell [students] who the people are, we don't want to just tell them what happened - we want to show the process by which it formed itself.

I think ['March'] is not just for the Black Lives Matter movement. It's for everyone. We all have to understand what happened then, so we can understand what's happening now.

So March: Book One was the first book I ever wrote. And it was the most terrifying process I've ever been through.

If you find yourself always worrying about what the people around you would say if you start being your true positive self, this would mean that you are yet to bond with your true purpose on earth.

Living off others is a form of bondage—for if you take from a person his responsibility to care for himself, you also take from him the opportunity to be free.

Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.

The truth is I'm not really interested in travel writing as it's generally conceived, and even less so in female travel writing.

I think the Canadian Football League is a great league, but it's not the NFL, and I'm not Jerry Rice.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

If you say the Rosary faithfully unto death, I do assure you that, in spite of the gravity of your sins, 'you will receive a never-fading crown of glory'

The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.

There are four purposes of improvement: easier, better, faster, and cheaper. These four goals appear in the order of priority.

Radio is just a fashion contrivance that will soon die out. It is obvious that there never will be invented a proper receiver!