It was civil disobedience that won them their civil rights.

I'm a child of the Civil Rights Movement.

The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.

What drew me to both study and activism was the formative experience of the civil rights movement.

A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of full victory. It underestimates the value of confrontation and dissolves the confidence born of partial victory by which new efforts are powered.

The question is not if we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be. The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.