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.

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.

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.

If there was one advantage of the numerous lifetimes he’d been forced to endure, it was undoubtedly knowledge.

Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related.

In my mind these two instruments speak to me in different ways, and the solo stuff seems to be easier to do on the soprano.

I want to put our resources where I think they're most needed: Getting rid of any violent person.

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.

When you reach my age, you realize you couldn't have done things very much better or much worse than you did them in the first place.

I am too impatient to wait for temptation to come to me.

When I got to Hollywood, at first I couldn't get a lot of jobs. So I grew a beard and look like a really bad Arab, and I started to get a lot of work because that's what they want.

Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying.

To engage in a battle, one must know oneself, believe in oneself, and overcome one's own obstacle