Hope is the best contraceptive.

There comes a time when you roll up your sleeves and put yourself at the top of your commitment list.

Ordinary women of grace are, in a sense, my real role models.

I need to work outside government, on my own.

Our true remembrance to President Kennedy is in our actions to honor the unspoken words and finish the unfinished work today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes.

I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.

Children cannot lobby and cannot vote. We must speak for them.