One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

You can't win what you don't fight for.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Men without jobs do not form families.

[T]o really try to be informed and literate today is to feel stupid nearly all the time, and to need help.

Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again—lots of them.

Your old men shall dream dreams your young men shall see visions.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

Well, it's wonderful to be identified strongly with my work.

A guy walks up to me and asks, "What's Punk?". So I kick over a garbage can and say. "That's punk!". So he kicks over the garbage can and says, "That's Punk?", and I say, "No that's trendy!

God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him

The way anything is developed is through practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice practice and more practice.

To me, I definitely stand in the corner of wanting to give voice to the bullied, and not the bully.

...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?