Selma Quotes

“You cannot be afraid to speak up and speak out for what you believe. You have to have courage, raw courage.”
― John Lewis

“We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths – that all of us are created equal – is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall.”
― Barack Obama

“I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans.”
― Amelia Boynton Robinson

“We've always lived in the past in Selma, and we still do. But the past has changed on us. It included a lot of stories it didn't used to.”
― Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War