There is no contradiction between effective law enforcement and respect for civil and human rights.

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

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

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

When you're a black woman, you seldom get to do what you just want to do; you always do what you have to do.

Civil rights are civil rights. There are no persons who are not entitled to their civil rights... We have to recognize that we have a long way to go, but we have to go that way together.

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