“Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.”

“I was brought up by people who loved others. I love people. We had no animosity. We had no feeling that we hate anyone.”

“A voteless people is a hopeless people.”

“Only until all human beings begin to recognize themselves as human beings will prejudice be gone forever. People ask me what race I am, but there is no such thing as race. I just answer: "I’m a member of the human race.”

“Remember, this is your day and your world.”

“Get off of my shoulders. The foundation has been laid, now its time for you to build on it and get to work.”

“I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans.”