Occupation: Politician Birth: August 25, 1983
If voting wasn't important, why would they be spending so much time and so much energy trying to stop you from doing it?.
What crystallized the importance of speaking out like that - of making nonviolence not just a tool or a tactic, but a way of life - was in San Diego ….
We chose to frame "March" around the inauguration of Barack Obama because it was such an important moment in the story of the Civil Rights Movement. ….
I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title. And when you're reading it, and y….
Nothing surprised me more, and meant more to me, than seeing an entire class of ninth graders mob Congressman [John] Lewis at a book festival..
We're [also] trying to talk to a generation who grew up on the Internet. They're digital natives, and, essentially, they speak through sequential sto….
You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society..