Strong people do not need strong leaders.

I think you can find some rationales for that if we look at the background out of which he came. Martin [Luther King] had come out of a highly competitive, black, middle-class background.

I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.

I guess the best way to describe that would be to connect with the fact that I came out of college just before the big Depression, and I came to New York.

[Martin Luther] King was one of the two young ministers - and you know how directly oriented the Negro community still is towards the minister as the leader.

I had known, number one, that there would never be any role for me in the leadership capacity with SCLC. Why? First, I'm a woman. Also, I'm not a minister. And second, I am a person that feels that I have to maintain some degree of personal integrity and be my own barometer of what is important and what is not.

We who believe in freedom cannot rest until it comes.