You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

Ethics is a skill

A few minutes ago, I had a hard time getting through the lobby because of all the people. After today, that won't be happening.

Obstinacy is will asserting itself without being able to justify itself. It is persistence without a reasonable motive. It is the tenacity of self-love substituted for that of reason and conscience.

You can't make people listen to you. People only hear what they want to hear.

War is both the product of an earlier corruption, and a producer of new corruptions.

I think if you want to make a recipe for making a writer, have them feel a little out of place everywhere, have them be an observer kind of all the time. And that's a great way to make a writer.

If little green men land in your back yard, hide any little green women you've got in the house.

Motives by excess reverse their very nature and instead of exciting, stun and stupefy the mind.

I had no immediate knowledge of the world of Batman at all. I'm quite incubated. I just keep myself to myself and my dog.