1. “When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.”
2. “We will stand up for what is right, for what is fair and what is just. Health care is a right and not a privilege.”
3. “You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.”
4. “I have fought too hard and for too long against discrimination based on race and color not to stand up against discrimination based on sexual orientation. I've heard the reasons for opposing civil marriage for same-sex couples. Cut through the distractions, and they stink of the same fear, hatred and intolerance I have known in racism and in bigotry.”
5. “The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.”
6. “If you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have a moral obligation to do something about it.”
7. “The civil rights movement was based on faith. Many of us who were participants in this movement saw our involvement as an extension of our faith. We saw ourselves doing the work of the Almighty. Segregation and racial discrimination were not in keeping with our faith, so we had to do something.”
8. “Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse.”
9. “We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.”
