We must recognize that beneath the superficial classifications of sex and race the same potentialities exist, recurring generation after generation, only to perish because society has no place for them.

Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.

laughter, that distinctively human emotion, laughter which springs from trust in the other, from willingness to put oneself momentarily in the other's place, even at one's own expense, is the special emotional basis of democratic procedures, just as pride is the emotion of an aristocracy, shame of a crowd that rules, and fear of a police state.

Never underestimate the ability of a small group of committed individuals to change the world.

Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.

There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves

It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.