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

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.

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 have to realize we are building a movement.

Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop.

If the time is not ripe, we have to ripen the time.

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.