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.

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

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

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.

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.

I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within.

I think what actually works best is local-level individual targeting of key leadership nodes.

The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence.

If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death.

Also I played on a lot of demos in the early days of the Stones.

We have an idea of truth, invincible to all scepticism.

As a person of color, I was just really tired of the fact that I wasn't seeing my story in the culture.

A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Leaving GH was not my choice. I wanted to stay and work out a deal, and that was not an option to me.

You pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus.