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.

I am the product of many whose lives have touched mine, from the famous, distinguished, and powerful to the little known and the poor.

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

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

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.

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