I actually feel most relaxed when I'm working.

There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.

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.

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

I cannot take every case that people ask me to take.

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.