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.

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.

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

I think of my life as a unity of circles. Some are concentric, others overlap, but they all connect in some way. Sometimes the connections don't happen for years. But when they do, I marvel. As in a shimmering kaleidoscope, familiar patterns keep unfolding

We have to realize we are building a movement.

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

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