"Battles lost can be wont with new effort. Every generation has to recommit to the work, to the effort, and to the true meaning of the word 'patriot'. A patriot is NOT someone who condones the conduct of our country, whatever it does, it is someone who fights every day for the ideals of our country, whatever it takes."

"Yes, people are marching, yes people are shouting, but they are doing it from a place of optimism, that's why my parents took me, in a stroller, to civil rights marches, because as overwhelming as the circumstances may be, they believe as I do, that a better future is possible for us all. My daily challenge to myself is to be part of the solution, to be a joyful warrior in the battle to come. My challenge to you, is to join that effort, to stand up for our ideals and our values. Let's not throw up our hands when it's time to roll up our sleeves, not now, not tomorrow, not ever. Years from now, our children and our grandchildren will look up and lock eyes with us. They will ask us where we were when the stakes were so high. They will ask us what it was like. I don't want us to just tell them how we felt, I want us to tell them WHAT WE DID."