Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger.

When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.

Minorities have never been given their rights. They have always had to wage a political and legal battle to win them.

[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.

Generally, dictatorships do not work in marriage - or, for that matter, in any other relationship.