If the times aren't ripe, you have to ripen the times.

Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit

We've got to work to save our children and do it with full respect for the fact that if we do not, no one else is going to do it.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

My mother helped me understand how not to show off what I knew, but how to use it so that others might benefit.

We are not a problem people, we are people with problems.

We had people of all backgrounds coming together - all races, all creeds, all colors, all status in life. And coming together there was a kind of quiet dignity and a kind of sense of caring and a feeling of joint responsibility.