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.

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

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.

I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain.

Do not just envisage your own hopes, dreams — but, have the courage to strive toward them.

Davey Crocket, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland.

I don't know, 'Zorro' was just so great for me because, knowing where I came from, everyone spoke Spanish to me, like, forever after that. And I'm, like, from Wales.

The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power.

In Talmudic literature, certainly in the beginning, he was like a human being - except he was a serpent. But he was talking and walking and probably dreaming.

George Washington’s brother, Lawrence, was the Uncle of Our Country.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

Sometimes you're up against everybody in the whole world - even your friends and family are saying, "You need a single." You feel sometimes incredibly alone.

Bill Stevenson of The Descendants is really good, too.