I think one of my father's great legacies is the people that he inspired and the generation that he inspired transformed America through civil rights, women's rights, equal justice, and they've passed that on to their children and grandchildren.

I feel that my father's greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.

In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country

I think that the thing that we learned back in the day of the civil rights movement is that you do have to keep on keeping on.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.