If we can just convince other people to get involved, this could make some major changes in our society. It's very exhilarating.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.

We as women should shine light on our accomplishments and not feel egotistical when we do. It's a way to let the world know that we as women can accomplish great things!

We can't let people drive wedges between us... because there's only one human race.

Every minute a chance to change the world.

That's the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn't.

Honor the hands that harvest your crops.

When you choose to give up your time and resources to participate in community work, that's what makes a leader.

I quit because I can’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes. I thought I could do more by organizing farm workers than by trying to teach their hungry children.

Don't be a marshmallow. Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk. Stop being vegetables. Work for Justice. Viva the boycott!

Sometimes you have to smile to keep from crying.

Hope is the mainspring of life.

You change the most permanent-seeming conditions of your life constantly through the varying attitudes you have toward them.

Stop running to those who ignore you and start running to those who adore you.

Love is the only flower that grows and blossoms without the aid of the seasons

All men are alike. The approach is different; the result is always the same.

[Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been.

An aristocrat in morals as in mind.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

Earning an education is not the same as gaining a skill set.