When a group of people get together, it's collective power. You know that you're doing it for the good.

My children grew up very resourceful and strong in spite of them having to live with different families and that I had to drag them all over the country with me.

If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

There's just so many facets, I think, of the ignorance in our society that have to be corrected if we're really going to have a democratic society and a society that is just and that respects all of the members of this society regardless of who they are, what color they may be, what sexual orientation that they have or what gender, you know, they happen to be.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

The first time when I was organizing, I went out and started knocking on doors to see if people were registered to vote. I was a door knocker. I didn't even have the confidence that I could register people, so I just was out there door knocking. That was my first experience.