Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

The time when you need to do something is when people are saying it can't be done.

When it comes to the cause of justice, I take no prisoners and I don't believe in compromise.

Defining child care primarily as women's sphere reinforces the devaluing of women and prevents their equal access to power.

We need to insist on fathers and mothers sharing the care of their offspring as well as the opportunity to enjoy the fulfillment of individual rights.

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

Anyone who takes on my sister, " he had postured once, all puffed-out bravado, "will have to deal with ...my sister." And then he'd dived behind her and cowered.

How do I have productive days with minimum drama? Simple

People are only what they think of themselves.

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.

It is not a sin to be seventy but it is also no joke.

Growth is a substitute for equality of income. So long as there is growth there is hope, and that makes large income differentials tolerable.

In a world where profit is consistently put before both people and the planet, climate economics has everything to do with ethics and morality.

I feel like I'm 11 again, with my drums. It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. I'm just playing.

Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world Repeats the passage of the universe To God; the name of Christ--the one great word Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.

On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.