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

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!

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.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

She’s my hero. Everything good and decent that I am is because of my mother.

Democracy is, among other things, the ability to say 'no' to the boss. But a man cannot say 'no' to the boss, unless he is sure of being able to eat when the boss's favour has been withdrawn.

It's a lonely place. Sometimes it's the loneliest place in the world.

If you don't allow for self-serving bias in the conduct of others, you are, again, a fool.

I don't think it's the job of theatre at the moment to provide political propaganda; that would be simplistic. We have to explore our situation further before we will understand it.

When I act I try to express the suffering or joy I've known during my lifetime.

Some people appear to be more meager in talent than they are, just because the tasks they set themselves are always too great.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.