While we were walking around, we came to the Catholic church, and we saw that some people had set fire to carpets and banked them around the rectory, which was made out of wood. They knew every fire truck on the South Side was going to be in the park, that the rectory would just burn to the ground. Our one little act was putting out that fire.

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

I'm a grandmother, and a mighty proud one.

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

The day of the march, we were forbidden to go to the march site. The man I worked for, the Presbyterian minister, knew we would want to be sort of martyrs for the cause and risk arrest. He didn't want any of that going on. So he made us stay in the neighborhood.