“In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. Sh...” — Jesse Jackson Quote

“In many ways, history is marked as 'before' and 'after' Rosa Parks. She sat down in order that we all might stand up, and the walls of segregation came down.”

“The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle.”

“We've removed the ceiling above our dreams. There are no more impossible dreams.”

“There's great disparity between who goes to college and who goes to jail. Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.”

“I'm not wasting my time with any more non-straight-talking candidates.”

“Deliberation and debate is the way you stir the soul of our democracy.”

“In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard.”

“They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.”

“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.”

“The greatest films ever made in our history were cut on film, and I'm tenaciously hanging on to the process. I just love going into an editing room and smelling the photochemistry and seeing my editor wearing mini-strands of film around his neck.”

“The pursuit of curiosity about the basic facts of nature has proven, with few exceptions throughout the history of medical science, to be the route by which the successful drugs and devices of modern medicine were discovered.”