I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

The legacy I want to leave is a child-care system that says that no kid is going to be left alone or left unsafe.

Be grateful for good breaks and kind favors but don't count on them.

This act will leave a moral blot on his presidency

I never thought I was breaking a glass ceiling. I just had to do what I had to do, and it never occurred to me not to.

There were these great women in Montgomery, [Rosa Louise] Parks was among them. Jo Ann Robinson [who organized the bus boycott] was among them. It's always these ordinary women and men of grace who have been waiting and seething and planning to change things that are unjust that bring movement.

Education is a precondition to survival in America today.