The news of Mr. Breitbart’s death came as a surprise to me when I was informed of it this morning. My prayers go out to Mr. Breitbart’s family as the….

Given the way the system was, what could I do as I one person, other than devote my life to fighting to make it different? If I had allowed myself to….

I want the world to know that Shirley Sherrod is someone who is committed to helping others. I love people, and I love doing things that make a diffe….

When I look in the mirror I see someone who's aging now, and someone who kept a commitment made many, many years ago, and who today is trying to be a….

Dr. King has long been my hero. I didn't get to work with him much, but my husband did in the early years. Dr. King gave his life, really, to the str….

I love helping other people. When I made a commitment to stay in the South, to work for change, it meant devoting my life to working for and helping ….

I grew up on a farm and, prior to my father's murder, I wanted to get away from the farm, and away from South Georgia where the Jim Crow laws absolut….

I am just a pawn. I was just here. They are after a bigger thing, they would love to take us back to where we were many years ago. Back to where blac….

I wish that somehow, some way we could learn to live together in this country..

The traditional farm, the peanuts, the cotton, the corn, is probably not the thing to do, because you're up against big farmers who can afford all th….

I've remained a supporter of the Obama administration, even at the height of my ordeal. There's a lot that he could do differently, but so much of wh….

If you're in government service for the money, then you'll do what you have to do to survive. But if you're in it to do the right thing, then it migh….

We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They need to produce s….

You have to approach people with the truth and with love, and with what's right. I was determined to get the truth out because I knew that the truth ….

You can't give up. Sometimes you get knocked down, but you have to get back up, fighting. You have to think about the others who come behind you as w….