When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.

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.

The only people that can't handle the truth are those that suffer so much anxiety that they will live in denial, in order to prevent their illusion from being destroyed and feeling more anxiety.

I do believe that people can only be in love with one landscape in their lifetime. One can appreciate and enjoy many geographies, but there is only one that one feels in one’s bones.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

The present age has seen a great slump in humanist values.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

I'm half Native American and half white so I think I can adjust culturally to anything.

The media thinks that you have to make science sexy and concentrate on themes such as rivalry and the human issues.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.

[W]ith an unquiet mind, neither exercise, nor diet, nor physick can be of much use.