Those of us who have gathered here, ... we owe something from this minute on, so this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history.

Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

I'm not going anywhere. I came here to say something, and I'm not leaving until I'm finished.

It's bleak because I can't - many of us can't hear her sweet voice - but it's great because she did live, and she was ours. I mean African-Americans and white Americans and Asians, Spanish-speaking - she belonged to us and that's a great thing.

The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.