When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

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.

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 just want to pour my soul out on someone and not have to worry about the mess I’ve made.

Gold may shine

Do not show your wounded finger for everything will knock up against it.

The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.

I love summer, but my legs are so pale I can never wear shorts or a bikini.

Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black.

I'm a Yente and I have a terrible accent.

No matter how bad you think something is, when you look into it, it's always worse.

What is important in your life is what you decide is important -- and this decision will indelibly create who you are

Every human being has the right to search for happiness, and by 'happiness' is meant something that makes other people feel content.