"Nobody can do it for you. You have to do it yourself."

"You don't have to be a big shot to make a difference. You just have to care."

"I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people."

"I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then. I was forty-two. No, the only tired I was, was tired of giving in."

"The day-to-day work of fighting for civil rights was hard."