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I have underestimated me in the past and I have proved Selma Blair wrong. So don't underestimate me. – Selma Blair	Found on CNN 1 year ago
When you’re in Selma and then you realize where the march started — you get the shivers, you look around and you literally feel the history. – Bob Barnes	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
When you’re in Selma and then you realize where the march started … you get the shivers, you look around and you literally feel the history. – Bob Barnes	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I ask everyone's forgiveness as I go on this journey in life. Oh, I'm sure I'll be canceled many times, introducing, Selma Blair. – Selma Blair	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It is good to be in Selma, Alabama, one more time, to take a little walk to try to dramatize the need for the rights of all our people to be able to participate in the democratic process. – John LewisThe	Found on CNN 3 years ago
It’s why GIs gave their lives at Omaha Beach and Iwo Jima; Iraq and Afghanistan – and why men and women from Selma to Stonewall were prepared to give theirs as well, so that’s what we mean when we say America is exceptional. Not that our nation has been flawless from the start, but that we have shown the capacity to change, and make life better for those who follow. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee Inc. has been around for more than 25 years, and it’s what people expect, we can work together as partners on this thing, but( Evans) does n’t seem to want that. – Faya Rose Toure	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I never saw him. I never met him, i was involved in the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery and directed to voter education project for six years. But I met Hillary Clinton. I met President Clinton. – John Lewis	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I never saw him. I never met him, i was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for three years, from 1963 to 1966. I was involved with the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery and directed (the) voter education project for six years. But I met Hillary Clinton. I met President (Bill) Clinton. – Democratic Rep. John Lewis	Found on CNN 8 years ago
I never saw him. I never met him, i was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for three years, from 1963 to 1966. I was involved with the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery and directed to voter education project for six years. But I met Hillary Clinton. I met President Clinton. – John Lewis	Found on CNN 8 years ago
This is our Selma. – The NAACP	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Selma is a very resilient place but it's a place that is stagnant, the sad thing is that it has so much potential. – Robert Stewart	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If Selma taught us anything, it's that our work is never done. – The President	Found on CNN 9 years ago
You can see how progress is made by looking at what happened this weekend in Selma, Alabama, where our country is marking a historic anniversary of the long march towards equality and a more perfect union, and also recommitting to carry the cause forward into the 21st century, so whether it's women's rights or human rights, civil rights or LGBT rights, we're counting on all of you to lead the way, and that's what the no-ceilings initiative at the Clinton Foundation is really all about. – Hillary Clinton	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Right now, in 2015, fifty years after Selma, there are laws across this country designed to make it harder for people to vote. As we speak, more of such laws are being proposed, meanwhile, the Voting Rights Act, the culmination of so much blood, so much sweat and tears, the product of so much sacrifice in the face of wanton violence ... stands weakened. – President Barack Obama	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We have to recognize that one day’s commemoration, no matter how special, is not enough, if Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done. – President Obama	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Selma is not just about commemorating the past, it's about honoring the legends who helped change this country through your actions today, in the here and now, selma is now. – President Barack Obama	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The notion that say some young kid who was brought here when he was 2 or 3 years old might somehow be deported at the age of 20 or 25, even though they've grown up as Americans — that's not who we are. That's not true to the spirit of what the march on Selma was about, the idea that we would discriminate against people with different sexual orientations, the basic concept was everybody has to be treated equally under the law, not that you have to, that everybody has to have an equal lifestyle. – President Obama	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We say that 'Selma' is now, because the struggle for justice is right now, we know that the voting rights act that they fought for 50 years ago is being compromised right now in this country today. We know that right now the struggle for freedom and justices where we live in the most incarcerated country in the world. – John Legend	Found on CNN 9 years ago
We say that 'Selma' is now, because the struggle for justice is right now. – John Legend	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
We wrote this song for a film that was based on events that were 50 years ago, but we say Selma is now, because the struggle for justice is right now. – John Legend	Found on CNN 9 years ago
The kids will know that there are African Americans who cared about their education, who found a special connection between this movie and their own lives, and wanted to pay it forward, selma. – Fred Terrell	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
It's nominated for the Oscar for best picture. It's an award that showcases the talent of everyone involved in the production of the movie 'Selma.'. – Boone Isaacs	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

I have underestimated me in the past and I have proved Selma Blair wrong. So don't underestimate me.

– Selma Blair

Found on CNN
1 year ago

When you’re in Selma and then you realize where the march started — you get the shivers, you look around and you literally feel the history.

– Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

When you’re in Selma and then you realize where the march started … you get the shivers, you look around and you literally feel the history.

– Bob Barnes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I ask everyone's forgiveness as I go on this journey in life. Oh, I'm sure I'll be canceled many times, introducing, Selma Blair.

– Selma Blair

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It is good to be in Selma, Alabama, one more time, to take a little walk to try to dramatize the need for the rights of all our people to be able to participate in the democratic process.

– John LewisThe

Found on CNN
3 years ago

It’s why GIs gave their lives at Omaha Beach and Iwo Jima; Iraq and Afghanistan – and why men and women from Selma to Stonewall were prepared to give theirs as well, so that’s what we mean when we say America is exceptional. Not that our nation has been flawless from the start, but that we have shown the capacity to change, and make life better for those who follow.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

Selma Bridge Crossing Jubilee Inc. has been around for more than 25 years, and it’s what people expect, we can work together as partners on this thing, but( Evans) does n’t seem to want that.

– Faya Rose Toure

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I never saw him. I never met him, i was involved in the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery and directed to voter education project for six years. But I met Hillary Clinton. I met President Clinton.

– John Lewis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I never saw him. I never met him, i was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for three years, from 1963 to 1966. I was involved with the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery and directed (the) voter education project for six years. But I met Hillary Clinton. I met President (Bill) Clinton.

– Democratic Rep. John Lewis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

I never saw him. I never met him, i was chair of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee for three years, from 1963 to 1966. I was involved with the sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, the March on Washington, the march from Selma to Montgomery and directed to voter education project for six years. But I met Hillary Clinton. I met President Clinton.

– John Lewis

Found on CNN
8 years ago

This is our Selma.

– The NAACP

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Selma is a very resilient place but it's a place that is stagnant, the sad thing is that it has so much potential.

– Robert Stewart

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If Selma taught us anything, it's that our work is never done.

– The President

Found on CNN
9 years ago

You can see how progress is made by looking at what happened this weekend in Selma, Alabama, where our country is marking a historic anniversary of the long march towards equality and a more perfect union, and also recommitting to carry the cause forward into the 21st century, so whether it's women's rights or human rights, civil rights or LGBT rights, we're counting on all of you to lead the way, and that's what the no-ceilings initiative at the Clinton Foundation is really all about.

– Hillary Clinton

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Right now, in 2015, fifty years after Selma, there are laws across this country designed to make it harder for people to vote. As we speak, more of such laws are being proposed, meanwhile, the Voting Rights Act, the culmination of so much blood, so much sweat and tears, the product of so much sacrifice in the face of wanton violence ... stands weakened.

– President Barack Obama

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

If Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We have to recognize that one day’s commemoration, no matter how special, is not enough, if Selma taught us anything, it’s that our work is never done.

– President Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Selma is not just about commemorating the past, it's about honoring the legends who helped change this country through your actions today, in the here and now, selma is now.

– President Barack Obama

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The notion that say some young kid who was brought here when he was 2 or 3 years old might somehow be deported at the age of 20 or 25, even though they've grown up as Americans — that's not who we are. That's not true to the spirit of what the march on Selma was about, the idea that we would discriminate against people with different sexual orientations, the basic concept was everybody has to be treated equally under the law, not that you have to, that everybody has to have an equal lifestyle.

– President Obama

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We say that 'Selma' is now, because the struggle for justice is right now, we know that the voting rights act that they fought for 50 years ago is being compromised right now in this country today. We know that right now the struggle for freedom and justices where we live in the most incarcerated country in the world.

– John Legend

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We say that 'Selma' is now, because the struggle for justice is right now.

– John Legend

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

We wrote this song for a film that was based on events that were 50 years ago, but we say Selma is now, because the struggle for justice is right now.

– John Legend

Found on CNN
9 years ago

The kids will know that there are African Americans who cared about their education, who found a special connection between this movie and their own lives, and wanted to pay it forward, selma.

– Fred Terrell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

It's nominated for the Oscar for best picture. It's an award that showcases the talent of everyone involved in the production of the movie 'Selma.'.

– Boone Isaacs

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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