The March on Washington was a March for Jobs and Freedom. There are still too many people who are unemployed or underemployed in America - they're black, white, Latino, Native American and Asian American.

The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in the American society.

Customs, traditions, laws should be flexible, within good reason, if that is what it takes to make our democracy work.

I say to people today, 'You must be prepared if you believe in something. If you believe in something, you have to go for it. As individuals, we may not live to see the end.'

We need someone who is going to stand up, speak up, and speak out for the people who need help, for the people who have been discriminated against.

If it hadn't been for that march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday, there would be no Barack Obama as President of the United States of America.