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.

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

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

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

I want to be remembered as one who tried.

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

We have to realize we are building a movement.