The last state to admit a black student to the college level was South Carolina

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Something which we think is impossible now is not impossible in another decade.

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Lack of encouragement never deterred me. I was the kind of person who would not be put down.

There appears to be no limit as to how far the women's revolution will take us.

I grew up in a house where nobody had to tell me to go to school every day and do my homework.

When I was 15, I decided I wanted to be a lawyer. No one thought this was a good idea

Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

King consciously steered away from legal claims and instead relied on civil disobedience.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

To be a Christian - a follower of Jesus Christ - is to love wisdom, love justice, and love freedom.

There is an obsession in the Church with sin management. People think more about their sins than about their redemption through Jesus

Trying to force something is the best way to stop it from happening.

To me death is better than the defensive.

I get hit on so much it's not normal. I didn't realize so many men liked redheads.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.

Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

Best thing in eird,I say for me, Is merry hart with small possessioun.

That wee have of Geometry, which is the mother of all Naturall Science, wee are not indebted for it to the Schools.