When you have police officers who abuse citizens, you erode public confidence in law enforcement. That makes the job of good police officers unsafe.

Civil rights laws were not passed to protect the rights of white men and do not apply to them.

Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.

Analysis can tell us what is required, but it cannot make us act.

advocating women's rights and greater opportunity for women in the workplace and in every avenue of public life is inconsistent with an insistence on mother taking care of children and housework.

If Rosa Parks had taken a poll before she sat down in the bus in Montgomery, she'd still be standing.

The time when you need to do something is when people are saying it can't be done.