It was very clear to me in 1965, in Mississippi, that, as a lawyer, I could get people into schools, desegregate the schools, but if they were kicked off the plantations - and if they didn't have food, didn't have jobs, didn't have health care, didn't have the means to exercise those civil rights, we were not going to have success.

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

You really can change the world if you care enough.

In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad.

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.

We do not have a money problem in America. We have a values and priorities problem.

Be a good ancestor. Stand for something bigger than yourself. Add value to the Earth during your sojourn.