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

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.

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 appreciate the beauty and balm of flowers but I have never enjoyed receiving them because then I have to watch them die, and worse...throw them away.

Charity that is always beginning at home stays there.

I have never followed what people say it is 'fashionable'. I think that a woman must wear what fits her. That is why I created a style appropriated to my type and my artistical genre.

People will say to me, "Well, nobody really believes this stuff." But as a reporter I go out and talk to people who do believe it. And they can talk about it for hours.

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence.

Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.

one cannot judge the beauty of a path merely by looking at its entrance.

I think you go through different phases when you do albums, and I think that they change according to where you are in your life and what you're inspired by at the moment.

Just because we are working hard does not mean we are making anything happen.