I Don't Have Any Extraordinary Gifts. I'm

This Book [march], In My Estimation, Is A Road Map. It Is A Change Agent. It Is Saying To People, "this Is A Way".

First Time I Got Arrested, I Knew Somehow And Some Way, We Would Succeed. To Go On The Freedom Ride To Be Beaten And Left Bloody And Unconscious, To Be Beaten On That Bridge In Selma, Have A Concussion - I Thought That I Was Going To Die On That Bridge. But Somehow And Some Way, I Lived To Tell About What Happened, And I've Seen Some Of The Fruits Of The Labor Of So Many People, And People Must Understand That.

If Someone Had Told Me In 1963 That One Day I Would Be In Congress, I Would Have Said, 'you're Crazy. You Don't Know What You're Talking About.'

My Parents Told Me In The Very Beginning As A Young Child When I Raised The Question About Segregation And Racial Discrimination, They Told Me Not To Get In The Way, Not To Get In Trouble, Not To Make Any Noise.

Sensible People Have Got To Work Together.