From Nathan Hodges, in Oxford, Mississippi:

I was a human rights worker. You can't have civil rights before you have human rights.

From Diane Nash, in Chicago:

People are never the enemy. Unjust systems are the enemy.

From Bishop Don E. Bush at the Body of Christ Deliverance Ministry, Birmingham:

We walked. We marched. We stood because it was a movement not of hatred, but of justice.

From Joanne Bland, on participating in marches in Selma, Alabama:

You knew to eat a big breakfast, because by the end of the day you were going to end up in jail.

From Rev. James Webb, in Selma, Alabama:

What you're being taught to do is to take what you know, sift it through the realities of a changing world, and make a difference.

Bumper sticker seen in Hattiesburg, Mississippi:

It's a white thing. You wouldn't understand.

From Vernon Dahmer, Jr., on those who defend the Confederate flag as heritage:

Their heritage is our hell.

From Kalamu Ya Salaam, in New Orleans:

If you're going to get up and talk, talk with people. Don't talk at people. To do that, you have to be a little curious about who those people are.