To make a small town achieve its potential, you need everybody. When a blind person carries a crippled person who can see, both of them get where the…

- Unita Blackwell

Change depends on people knowing the truth. Change depends on people speaking that truth out loud. That's what movements do. Movements educate people…

- Unita Blackwell

The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

- Unita Blackwell

Who are we to say what's right for civilizations that were already thousands of years old when our own nation came into being?

- Unita Blackwell

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.

- Unita Blackwell

Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.

- Unita Blackwell

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

- Unita Blackwell

The big shots are not the only ones who are important. Remember, you can't sell anything on Wall Street unless someone digs it up somewhere else firs…

- Unita Blackwell

Movements are not radical. Movements are the American way. A small group of abolitionists writing and speaking eventually led to the end of slavery. …

- Unita Blackwell