In our times, significantly, the three outstanding voices against violence have been silenced by murder - Mahatma Gandhi in India, Archbishop Romero in El Salvador, and Dr. Martin Luther King, here at home.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

I have come to believe that one thing people cannot bear is a sense of injustice. Poverty, cold, even hunger are more bearable than injustice.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

What we do stems directly from what we believe.

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.

You may never reach a solution, but you're never absolved from the responsibility of trying.